Ensemble natural language processing model with compliance verification

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure relates to an ensemble network of natural language processing (NLP) models configured to determine how well a given document addresses one or more requirements set forth in a requirement-specifying document. The NLP models may extract relevant text from the documents and perform term-similarity measurements to determine how similar the text tokens from one document are to the other and generate a similarity score for each sentence and each section of each document. The similarity scores may then be used to determine whether the response document addresses the requirements. If the response document does not address particular requirements, then data flags may be generated to indicate that a corresponding section of the response document may need to be updated.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

There is no cross-reference is presented at this time.

BACKGROUND

When responding to requirements specified in certain documents, it isparamount to ensure compliance with the requirements. Traditionaltechniques for ensuring compliance involve multiple humans performing amanual review of each requirement's response. For example, forgovernment contract review of Request for Proposals (RFPs), a colorcoded review methodology can be used, where each color is associatedwith a separate portion of the review of the response to the RFP.Unfortunately, for these and similar types of reviews forrequirement-specifying documents, numerous individuals are needed toperform the review, which slows down the review process and inherentlyinjects a reviewer's bias into their review of the document.Additionally, manual review of the document can still lead to a reviewerfailing to identify when responses to important requirements beingmissed,

SUMMARY

The following is a non-exhaustive listing of some aspects of the presenttechniques. These and other aspects are described in the followingdisclosure.

Some aspects include a process that includes: obtaining a first documentand a second document each comprising a plurality of sections, whereineach section of the first document comprises at least one sentenceincluding a predefined keyword, and wherein each section of the seconddocument comprises one or more sentences; identifying, using a firstnatural language processing (NLP) model, each instance of the predefinedkeyword in each section of the first document; for each section of theplurality of sections of the first document: extracting, using the firstNLP model, first text data representing first text tokens of the atleast one sentence including the predefined keyword; generating, using asecond NLP model, based on the first text data, a feature vectorrepresenting each of the first text tokens of the at least one sentenceincluding the predefined keyword to obtain a first set of textualfeature vectors; for each section of the plurality of sections of thesecond document: extracting, using the first NLP model, second text datarepresenting second text tokens of each of the one or more sentences ofa given section of the second document; generating, using the second NLPmodel, based on the second text data, a feature vector representing eachof the second text tokens of the given section of the second document toobtain a second set of textual feature vectors; determining, based on aterm frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) analysis of eachsection of the first document and the second document, a set of texttokens from the first text tokens and the second text tokens that occurmost frequently in the first document and the second document; selectinga set of feature vectors from the first set of textual feature vectorsand the second set of textual feature vectors, wherein each featurevector selected corresponds to a text token from the set of text tokens;determining a text token similarity score between each text token fromthe set of text tokens, wherein determining the text token similarityscore comprises computing, using a third NLP model, a first distance ina first feature space between each feature vector from the selected setof feature vectors; generating, for each section of the plurality ofsections, a section text token score based on the text token similarityscore for each text token of the set of text tokens included in a givensection; determining, for each section of the plurality of sections,whether the section text token score satisfies a first thresholdcondition, the first threshold condition being satisfied for a sectiontext token score that is greater than or equal to a threshold text tokenscore; and generating and storing a data flag with each section of theplurality of sections of the second document having a respectivethreshold text token score failing to satisfy the first thresholdcondition.

Some aspects include a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable mediumstoring instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatuscause the data processing apparatus to perform operations including theabove-mentioned process.

Some aspects include a system, including: one or more processors; andmemory storing instructions that when executed by the processors causethe processors to effectuate operations of the above-mentioned process.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above-mentioned aspects and other aspects of the present techniqueswill be better understood when the present application is read in viewof the following figures in which like numbers indicate similar oridentical elements:

FIG. 1A illustrates an example system for using an ensemble network toperform compliance verification for a document, in accordance withvarious embodiments;

FIG. 1B illustrates an example system including an ensemble network, inaccordance with various embodiments;

FIG. 2 illustrates an example document including a plurality ofsections, each including at least one requirement, in accordance withvarious embodiments;

FIG. 3 illustrates an example document including a plurality ofsections, each including a response to the at least one requirement, inaccordance with various embodiments;

FIGS. 4A and 4B illustrate an example first natural language processing(NLP) subsystem configured to generate a data structure for a firstdocument and a second document, respectively, in accordance with variousembodiments;

FIG. 5 illustrates an example second NLP subsystem configured togenerate a set of textual feature vectors, in accordance with variousembodiments;

FIG. 6A illustrates an example third NLP subsystem configured togenerate and rank text token scores, in accordance with variousembodiments;

FIG. 6B illustrates an example graph depicting a distance betweenfeature vectors representing text tokens and determining a similarity ofthe text tokens based on the distance, in accordance with variousembodiments;

FIG. 7A illustrated an example fourth NLP subsystem configured togenerate semantic similarity scores for text tokens, in accordance withvarious embodiments;

FIG. 7B illustrates an example graph depicting a distance betweenfeature vectors representing text tokens and determining a semanticsimilarity of the text tokens based on the distance, in accordance withvarious embodiments;

FIG. 8 illustrates an example data flag subsystem for determiningwhether a data flag is to be assigned to a section of a document toindicate whether the section does not comply with one or morerequirements of a corresponding section from a first document, inaccordance with various embodiments;

FIG. 9 illustrates an example document including a plurality of sectionsincluding a response to the at least one requirement and an indicatorassociated with the assigned data flag, in accordance with variousembodiments;

FIGS. 10A-10D illustrate an example process for determining whether oneor more sections of a first document comply with at least onerequirement of a corresponding section from a second document, inaccordance with various embodiments; and

FIG. 11 illustrates an example of a computing system by which one ormore of the present techniques may be implemented, in accordance withvarious embodiments.

While the present techniques are susceptible to various modificationsand alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way ofexample in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. Thedrawings may not be to scale. It should be understood, however, that thedrawings and detailed description thereto are not intended to limit thepresent techniques to the particular form disclosed, but to thecontrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, andalternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the presenttechniques as defined by the appended claims.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN EMBODIMENTS

To mitigate the problems described herein, the inventors had to bothinvent solutions and, in some cases just as importantly, recognizeproblems overlooked (or not yet foreseen) by others in the field ofspeech recognition and natural language processing. Indeed, theinventors wish to emphasize the difficulty of recognizing those problemsthat are nascent and will become much more apparent in the future shouldtrends in industry continue as the inventors expect. Further, becausemultiple problems are addressed, it should be understood that someembodiments are problem-specific, and not all embodiments address everyproblem with traditional systems described herein or provide everybenefit described herein. That said, improvements that solve variouspermutations of these problems are described below.

Verifying that a document complies with one or more requirements can bea challenge, particularly using traditional review techniques employingteams of humans reviewing the document. In some cases, a first documentmay include a number of requirements to be addressed by a seconddocument (i.e., a “response”), and the first document may be split intoa number of sections, each of which includes at least one requirement.Therefore, when preparing the response to the first document, an entitymust ensure that each requirement specified in each section of thedocument is addressed. As the number of requirements increases, thechances of failing to provide a response to a given requirementincreases. Furthermore, responses that fail to address a requirement maybe deemed as non-compliant, reducing the likelihood that the responsewill be accepted by an entity that created the first document (e.g., thedocument including the one or more requirements).

Additional challenges arise when response documents are created thatinclude low-quality responses addressing a given requirement. Alow-quality response may include a response that includes vastlydifferent terminology than that of the requirement, is semanticallyunrelated to the requirement, fails to include one or more key pieces ofinformation, or a combination thereof. Certain responses may requirespecific details relating to regulatory constraints, safety, healthdata, or other information. If these responses fail to include suchdetails, the response to the requirement may be classified asnon-compliant.

The goal of the response document is to address each requirement as bestas possible, addressing each of the action items specified by therequirement. Depending on how well each requirement is addressed by acorresponding response affects how well the entire response document israted as complying with the requirements of the first(requirement-specifying) document. In some cases, a highest-ratedresponse document may be selected as a “winner,” enabling the entitythat created that response document certain rights, funds, accessinformation, or other items.

Some embodiments include an ensemble network of natural languageprocessing (NLP) models used to analyze a first document (e.g., arequirement-specifying document) and a second document (e.g., a responsedocument) to determine how well the second document complies with therequirements specified by the first document. If a particularrequirement is not addressed by a response in the response document, orif that requirement is poorly addressed, then that response may beflagged so that it can be updated and improved. Doing so ensures thateach requirement includes an optimized response, thereby improving thelikelihood that the response document is selected as the “winner.”

The ensemble network may include a plurality of machine learning models,such as a first machine learning model, a second machine learning model,a third machine learning model, a fourth machine learning model, ormore. In some embodiments, the machine learning models may be NLPmodels, each trained to perform various language processing tasks. Forexample, one NLP model may be configured to identify a particularkeyword in text. Another NLP model may be configured to extract textfrom a document, perform named entity recognition, perform topicmodeling, or perform other tasks, or combinations thereof. Yet anotherNLP model may be configured to compare a require-specifying document anda response document to determine how similar text tokens from the twodocuments are. Still yet another NLP model may be configured todetermine a semantic similarity between text tokens of the twodocuments. Using the ensemble network, a response document may be scoredto identify a level of compliance with the requirements of therequirement-specifying document. In some cases, indications may beprovided that indicate which sections of the response document, or evenwhich responses, require additional information to improve their scoreand, thus, the response document's compliance with the specifiedrequirements.

FIG. 1A illustrates an example system 100 for using an ensemble networkto perform compliance verification for a document, in accordance withvarious embodiments. System 100 may include a computer system 102,databases 130, client devices 104 a-104 n (which may be collectivelyreferred to herein as client devices 104, or which may be individuallyreferred to herein as client device 104), and other components. Eachclient device 104 may include an image capturing component, an audiocapturing component, an audio output component, one or more inputdevices, a display component, or other components. As examples, clientdevice 104 may include one or more cameras, microphones, transducers,speakers, keyboards, keypads, touch screens, etc. In some cases, clientdevice 104 may be communicatively coupled to one or more components. Forexample, a client device 104 may be wirelessly connected (e.g., via aBluetooth connection) to a camera, keyboard, mouse, speaker, microphone,etc. In some embodiments, each of computer system 102 and client devices104 may be capable of communicating with one another, as well asdatabases 130, via one or more networks 150.

Computer system 102 may include a first NLP subsystem 112, a second NLPsubsystem 114, a third NLP subsystem 116, a fourth NLP subsystem 118, adata flag subsystem 120, or other components. Databases 130 may includea model database 132, a document database 134, a data structure database136, a feature vector database 138, or other databases. Each ofdatabases 132-138 may be a single instance of a database or may includemultiple databases, which may be co-located or distributed amongst anumber of server systems.

FIG. 1B illustrates an example system 160 including an ensemble network170, in accordance with various embodiments. Ensemble network 170 mayinclude multiple machine learning models joined together to perform oneor more tasks, such as solving a problem. In some embodiments, ensemblenetwork 170 includes a first NLP model 172, a second NLP model 174, athird NLP model 176, and a fourth NLP model 178. Additional machinelearning models may also be enjoined to ensemble network 170, and somemodels may be removed or combined.

Ensemble network 170 may receive, as input, a first document 162 and asecond document 164. First document 162 may be a requirement-specifyingdocument including requirements to be addressed by second document 164.For instance, with reference to FIG. 2, document 200 corresponds to anexample requirement-specifying document. Document 200 may include aplurality of sections, such as sections 202 a-202 c. Section 202 arefers to a first section of document 200, section 202 b refers to asecond section of document 200, and section 202 c refers to the N-thsection. The number of sections, N, may vary depending on the type ofdocument with which document 200 refers and the number of requirementsincluded within document 200. For example, the number of sections N maybe two or more sections, five or more sections, ten or more sections,one hundred or more sections, or other quantities.

Each of sections 202 a-202 c includes one or more sentences or phrases.In some embodiments, each section may include at least one requirementto be addressed by an entity in a response document. A requirement maybe expressed as a complete or partial sentence including an instance ofa predefined keyword or key phrase. The predefined keyword represents aword, n-gram, alphanumeric character string, or symbol that, if detectedwithin an utterance, triggers an action. A similar action is triggeredif a key phrase is detected within an utterance, with the exception thatthe key phrase represents one or more words, n-grams, alphanumericcharacter strings, or symbols, or a combination thereof. As an example,a predefined keyword may be the word “shall,” “period,” a name of aperson or place, or other words, alphanumeric character strings, orsymbols. In some embodiments, each requirement specified in therequirement-specifying document, document 200, is represented by a setof words, such as a sentence, where the set of words includes at leastone an occurrence of the predefined keyword or key phrase.

As seen in FIG. 2, first section 202 a includes three sentences 204a-204 c. Each of sentences 204 a-204 c may be a requirement or anon-requirement. For example, sentences 204 a and 204 b are requirements(e.g., Req. 1a and 1b), while sentence 204 c is a non-requirement. Insome embodiments, requirements include a requirement identifier, such as“Req. 1a,” as well as a digital identifier formed of a string ofnumbers, letters, or characters that is used to organize and store dataassociated with words included in the sentence. Sentences including anoccurrence of the predefined keyword may be referred to as requirementsentences. Sentences that do not include an occurrence of the predefinedkeyword may be referred to as non-requirement sentences. For example,sentences 204 a and 204 b may each include an occurrence of a keyword“shall.”

Some of sections 202 a-202 c may include multiple requirement sentences,while other sections may include a single requirement sentence. Forexample, section 202 a and 202 c each include multiple requirementsentences, whereas section 202 b includes a single requirementsentence—sentences 204 a and 204 b of section 202 a, sentence 206 ofsection 202 b, and sentences 208 a-208 c of section 202 c representexample requirement sentences. Furthermore, some of sections 202 a-202 cmay include additional sentences (e.g., non-requirement sentences) inaddition to one or more requirement sentences. For example, sentence 204c of section 202 a represents an example non-requirement sentence as itdoes not include an occurrence of the predefined keyword “shall.”

Second document 164 may be a response document including responses tosome or all of the requirements included in first document 162. Forinstance, with reference to FIG. 3, document 300 corresponds to anexample response document. Document 300 may include a plurality ofsections, such as sections 302 a-302 c. In some cases, sections 302a-302 c may be the same or similar to sections 202 a-202 c of document200. In other words, each section from document 300 may refer to a samesection from document 200. For example, section 202 a may include atleast one sentence representing a requirement, and section 302 a mayinclude one or more sentences representing a response to therequirement. Therefore, document 200 and document 300 may each include Nsections.

Each of sections 302 a-302 c includes one or more sentences or phrases.In some embodiments, the one or more sentences may form a response to aparticular requirement from a corresponding section of document 200.Each sentence in a response may include one or more words, n-grams,alphanumeric character strings, symbols, or a combination thereof. Itshould be noted that the term, “sentence,” as described herein, refersto a set of words, n-grams, alphanumeric character strings, or symbols.

Returning to FIG. 1B, first document 162 and second document 164 may beprovided to first NLP model 172. In some embodiments, first NLP model172 may be configured to identify instances of a predefined keywordwithin text of each section of first document 162. For example, firstNLP model 172 may include a keyword spotting model, as detailed below,trained to analyze text and detect the presence of a particular keyword(e.g., “shall”). A keyword spotter, also referred to herein as a keywordspotting model, is a machine learning model configured to detect aparticular keyword within an utterance. In some embodiments, the keywordspotting model is a convolutional neural network model including asliding window that scans text of an utterance and determines, as thewindow moves across the text, whether the string of characters withinthe window matches a predefined string of characters (e.g., thekeyword).

First NLP model 172 may further be configured to extract text datarepresenting raw text from a section of first document 162. Forinstance, first NLP model 172 may be configured to extract text dataincluded in each sentence having a detected occurrence of the predefinedkeyword. First NLP model 172 may also be configured to not extract textdata associated with any sentence that does not include an occurrence ofthe predefined keyword. In some cases, first NLP model 172 may beconfigured to extract text data representing raw text from each sectionof second document 164.

In some embodiments, first NLP model 172 may also be configured toperform one or more pre-processing steps to first document 162 andsecond document 164, however alternatively, the pre-processing may beperformed prior to first NLP model analyzing first document 162 andsecond document 164. The pre-processing steps may include parsing,tokenization, stop word removal, stemming, part-of-speech (POS) tagging,or other operations. Parsing involves segmenting text (e.g., sequencesof characters or values) into subsets of text. For example, the parsingmay identify each word within a given sentence. Tokenization involvesclassifying strings of characters into text tokens. For example, asentence structured as, “the car drives on the road,” may be representedin XML as:

-   -   <sentence>        -   <word> the </word>        -   <word> car </word>        -   <word> drives </word>        -   <word> on </word>        -   <word> the </word>        -   <word> road </word>    -   </sentence>.

Stop word removal involves removing stop words from the utterance.Example stop words include, but are not limited to, “the,” “in,” “a,”and “an.” Stemming involves reducing a word to its stem or root. Forexample, stemming of the word “running” may yield the stem “run.” POStagging involves tagging each text token with a tag indicating a part ofspeech that the token corresponds to. For example, POS tagging mayinclude tagging each text token with a tag indicating whether the texttoken represents a noun, a verb, an adjective, etc.

After text tokens are extracted from first document 162 and seconddocument 164, second NLP model 174 may identify words, topics, entities,or other features describing insights regarding an intent of acorresponding utterance. In some embodiments, second NLP model 174 maybe configured to generate feature vectors representing the text tokensof a given sentence. The generated feature is a learned representationof individual words or terms from a text, a sentence or set of words orterms from a text, a collection of sentences or sets of words or termsfrom a text, or a text itself. The feature vector is an n-dimensionalvector that maps to a point in a n-dimensional feature space. Otherfeature vectors that map to points proximate the point of the featurevector represent text tokens that are similar to the text tokenrepresented by the feature vector. For example, a feature vectorrepresenting the word “King” is directed to a point in a feature spacethat would be proximate another point in the feature vector related toanother feature vector representing the word “Queen.” The featurevectors representing text tokens from one section of document 162, andthe feature vectors representing text tokens from the same section ofdocument 164, may then be provided to third NLP model 176.

In some embodiments, a clustering quality may be determined using aclustering metric, such as an F1 score, a Normalized Mutual Information(NMI) score, or the Mathews Correlation Coefficient (MCC). In someembodiments, word embeddings for each text token may be extracted usinga pre-trained deep learning network. In some embodiments, thepre-trained deep learning network may include a deep neural networkhaving a large number of layers. For example, the deep neural networkmay include six or more layers. A pre-trained deep learning network mayinclude a number of stacked neural networks each of which includesseveral layers. As mentioned previously, the embeddings may refer to ahigher dimension representation of a discrete variable where the numberof dimensions is less than, for example, a number of characters in atext string. Using the pre-trained deep learning network, a wordembedding may be extracted for each text token, sentence, section, etc.The word embedding may be a representation of a term and may begenerated using different models for different aspects. In someembodiments, the word embedding may be represented as a tensor. Forexample, an embedding tensor of rank 1 may refer to an embedding vectorcomposed of an array of numbers (e.g., a 1 by N or N by 1 vector). Thedimensionality of an embedding vector may vary depending on use case,for instance the embedding vector may be 32 numbers long, 64 numberslong, 128 numbers long, 256 numbers long, 1024 numbers long, 1792numbers long, etc. The word embeddings mapped to a word embedding spacemay describe a relationship between text tokens. A word embedding spaceis specific to a model that generates the textual feature vectors forthat word embedding space. In some embodiments, the spatial relationshipbetween two (or more) word embedding vectors in embedding space mayprovide details regarding a relationship of the corresponding texttokens, particularly for use cases where a training data set includes asparse amount of data.

Third NLP model 176 may be configured to determine how well representedeach text token from the section of document 162 is within the samesection of document 164. In some cases, third NLP model 176 mayadditionally determine how well represented each text token from onesection of document 162 is within each section of document 164, and viceversa. In some embodiments, third NLP model 176 computes a text tokensimilarity score between pairs of text tokens, one from first document162 and one from second document 164. Using the text token similarityscores, a section text token score may be computed for each section toobtain section text token scores 180.

Fourth NLP model 178 may be configured to determine how semanticallysimilar two text tokens are, two sentences are, two sections are, twodocuments are, or a combination thereof. Fourth NLP model 178 maygenerate semantic similarity scores indicating how similar two tokensare and, based on the semantic similarity scores for the text tokens,compute a section semantic score for a given section. Section semanticscores 182 representing the semantic similarity score of each section offirst document 162, second document 164, or both.

FIGS. 4A and 4B illustrate an example first natural language processing(NLP) subsystem configured to generate a data structure for a firstdocument and a second document, respectively, in accordance with variousembodiments. In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 is configuredto obtain a first document, document 200 of FIG. 2, as seen in FIG. 4A.Upon receiving document 200, first NLP subsystem 112 may provide, asinput, document 200 to a first NLP model 402.

First NLP model 402 may be configured to identify occurrences of apredefined keyword in text from each section of document 200. Forexample, first NLP model 402 may detect each occurrence of a keyword“shall” in each sentence of each section of document 200. First NLPmodel 402 may include a keyword spotting model. A keyword spottingmodel, which can also be referred to as a trigger spotting model,analyzes an utterance to determine whether a predefined keyword has beenuttered. In some cases, the keyword spotting model may be implementedusing convolutional neural network that applies a moving window of afixed size to an utterance to detect whether the predefined keyword ispresent. The moving window may move in “steps,” referring to a number ofcharacters in the string of text that the window is to move in onedirection. At each step, the moving window performs a comparison betweenthe subset of characters included in the fixed window and the predefinedkeyword. When the comparison indicates a high likelihood (e.g., aconfidence score of greater than 90%) that the candidate subset ofcharacters represents the predefined keyword, the keyword spotting modelcan output a signal indicated that the keyword has been detected, andone or more additional actions may be performed.

As an example, with reference to FIG. 4A, first NLP model 402 causeswindow 408 a to move from left to right across the utterancecorresponding to Req. 1 (e.g., “The proposal shall . . . ”). If themoving window is set at 5 characters in size, the window will analyze acandidate token including the first five characters (e.g., “the p”) anddetermine how similar those characters are to a predefined keyword(e.g., “shall”). If the candidate token's characters are determined tobe not represent the predefined keyword (e.g., Score=(“Thep”|“shall”)<Threshold), then first NLP model 402 may cause window 408 ato move to the right (for languages read left to right) a predeterminednumber of characters, referred to as the “step.” For example, the stepsize may be four characters, and so after analyzing the first fivercharacters (e.g., “the p”), first NLP model 402 may analyze another fivecharacters starting from the fifth character in the utterance's textstring (e.g., “propo”). This process may repeat until a determination ismade as to whether the utterance includes an instance of the predefinedkeyword. For example, moving window 408 b includes the characters“shall.” First NLP model 402 may compare the candidate characters“shall” to the predefined keyword “shall,” and determine a similarityscore. If the similarity score exceeds a preset threshold, then firstNLP model 402 may declare that the predefined keyword has been detectedwithin the utterance. In some embodiments, the size of window 408 a, 408b may be configurable such that different sized window are used fordifferent utterances (or even the same utterance), the size of the stepmay be configurable such that different step sizes are used fordifferent utterances (or the same utterance), or both. As describedherein, an utterance refers to a word, words, sentence statement, orsound, or combination thereof. The utterance may be spoken (e.g., audiosignals capturing spoken sounds) or textual (e.g., a sentence orsentences). For example, as seen in FIG. 4A, each requirement includedwithin document 200 may be expressed as a sentence including anidentifying label “Req.” followed by one or more additional identifyingcharacters (e.g., “1a,” “1b,” etc.). In some embodiments, however,document 200 may not include an identifying label. Thus, first NLP model402 may analyze each sentence from document 200 to detect instances ofthe predefined keyword.

In some embodiments, in addition to identifying instances of apredefined keyword within each sentence included in each section offirst document 200, first NLP model 402 may be configured to populate afirst data structure 404 with data based on text data representing oneor more sentences included in a given section of first document 200. Inresponse to first data structure 404 being populated, first NLPsubsystem 112 may provide first data structure 404 to data structuredatabase 136 for storage. Data structure database 136 may store eachpopulated data structure with metadata indicate a time that the datastructure was generated, information (e.g., a directory path, documentidentifier, URL, pointer, etc.) for a corresponding document that thedata structure was populated from, a client device that thecorresponding document was obtained from (and subsequently stored indocument database 134), or other information.

In response to detecting the predefined keyword within a sentence of agiven section of document 200, first NLP subsystem 112 may be configuredto extract text data representing the sentence from first document 200.For example, text data representing a sentence 406 a including aninstance of a predefined keyword (e.g., “shall”) may be extracted byfirst NLP subsystem 112 in response to first NLP model 402 indicatingthat sentence 406 a includes the predefined keyword. In someembodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 extracts text data represented eachsentence that is determined to include the predefined keyword (e.g.,sentences 406 a and 406 b), however text data related to sentences thatdo not include the predefined keyword (e.g., sentence 406 c) may not beextracted. Some embodiments extract separate text data for each sentencethat includes the predefined keyword. For example, if a first sentenceand a second sentence each include an instance of a predefined keyword,first text data representing the first sentence and second text datarepresenting the second sentence may each be extracted by first NLPsubsystem 112. However, alternatively, first NLP subsystem 112 mayextract text data representing both the first sentence and the secondsentence.

In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 may perform one or moreadditional processes steps to the text data representing the sentencesin order to speed up the analysis of the text data. For example, firstNLP subsystem 112 may, upon receipt of first document 200, parse firstdocument 200 to identify each string of characters included therein. Theparsing may be performed in conjunction with, or in addition to, atokenization process whereby blocks of the raw text data included withinfirst document 200 is split into individual sentence and word “texttokens.” In some embodiments, the tokenization process may also includeassigning a section identifier, a requirement identifier, and a tokenidentifier to each text token. As mentioned above, first document 200includes a plurality of sections, and each section includes at least onesentence having an occurrence of a predefined keyword. The at least onesentence can be referred to as a requirement.

In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 may assigned a sectionidentifier to each text token, where text tokens extracted from a givensection are assigned that section's corresponding section identifier.For example, text tokens for each of sentences 406 a-406 c, which areincluded in the first section of first document 200, may be assigned asection identifier “Sec.0.0,” where the first “0” refers to firstdocument 200, and the second “0” refers to the first section.

In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 may assigned a requirementidentifier to each text token, where text tokens extracted from a givenrequirement are assigned that requirement's corresponding requirementidentifier. For example, as sentence 406 a includes an instance of apredefined keyword (e.g., “shall”), sentence 406 a may represent a firstrequirement included within the first section of first document 200.Thus, each text token included within sentence 406 a may be assigned arequirement identifier “Req.0.0.0,” where the first two “0”s refer tofirst document 200 and the first section of first document 200,respectively, and the third “0” refers to the first requirement (e.g., afirst instance of a sentence including the predefined keyword).

In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 may assign a text tokenidentifier to each text token within each requirement (e.g., a sentenceincluding the predefined keyword) for each section of first document200. For example, sentence 406 a includes the text tokens “The,”“proposal,” “shall,” etc. Each of these text tokens may be assigned aunique text token identifier indicating that text token's positionwithin the corresponding sentence. For instance, the text token “The”may be assigned the text token identifier “Text.0.0.0.0,” where thefirst three “0”s refer to first document 200, the first section of firstdocument 200, and the first requirement of the first section of firstdocument 200, respectively, and the fourth “0” refers to a text tokenposition of that text token. The text token “proposal” may be assignedthe text token identifier “Text.0.0.0.1,” indicating it is the secondtext token in the corresponding sentence.

Based on the aforementioned identification techniques, first NLPsubsystem 112 may implement first NLP model 402 to extract text datafrom first document 200 and populate first data structure 404 withvalues. As mentioned above, first data structure 404 may include asection identifier column 410, a requirement identifier column 412, atext token identifier column 414, and a text token column 416. Eachfield in data structure 404 may be populated with a value associatedwith a given text token such that first data structure 404 includes astructured representation of first document 200, which can be useddownstream in ensemble network 170 for further analysis.

In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 is further configured toobtain a second document, document 300 of FIG. 3, as seen in FIG. 4B.Upon receiving document 300, first NLP subsystem 112 may provide, asinput, document 300 to first NLP model 402. First NLP model 402 may beconfigured to perform similar tasks to document 300 as performed todocument 200, with the exception that document 300 may refer to aresponse document including responses to some or all of the requirementsspecified by first document 200. First NLP model 402 may cause a seconddata structure 454 to be populated based on the tasks performed to theraw text data included within second document 300. In some cases, seconddata structure 454, in response to being populated, may be stored indata structure database 136. Data structure database 136 may store eachpopulated data structure with metadata indicate a time that the datastructure was generated, information (e.g., a directory path, documentidentifier, URL, pointer, etc.) for a corresponding document that thedata structure was populated from, a client device that thecorresponding document was obtained from (and subsequently stored indocument database 134), or other information. As mentioned above, seconddocument 300 may also include a plurality of sections, which may be thesame as the plurality of sections included by first document 200. As anexample, each section of second document 300 includes sentences forminga response to each requirement including withing a same section ofsecond document 300. However, in some embodiments, the sentencesincluded in each section of document 300 do not need to include thepredefined keyword in order to trigger extraction of the text dayrepresenting those sentences.

In some embodiments, first NLP model 402 may extract text datarepresenting each sentence included in each section of second document300. The raw text data included within second document 300 may be parsedinto text tokens each corresponding to a given text token. For example,consider the sentence “Token_0, Token_1, Token_2, Token_3, . . . ”included within the first section of second document 300. First NLPmodel 402 may perform a tokenization of the sentence to obtain the texttokens “Token_0,” “Token_1,” “Token_2,” “Token_3,” etc. Each text tokenmay be assigned a section identifier indicating the section of seconddocument 300 that the sentence including that text token was includedwithin, a sentence identifier indicating which of the sentences includedin the text token, and a unique text token identifier indicating aposition of the text token within the sentence.

As an example, second data structure 454 includes a section identifiercolumn 460, a sentence identifier column 462, a token identifier column464, and a text token column 466. In this example, text token “Token_0”may have a section identifier “Section.1.0,” a sentence identifier“Sent.1.0.0,” and a token identifier “Text.1.0.0.0.” The “1” in sectionidentifier “Sec.1.0,” indicates that data structure 454 is populatedbased on second document 300, and the “0” indicates that the text tokenfor that entry is from the first section of document 300. Text token“Token_0” may have a sentence identifier “Sent.1.0.0,” where the firsttwo digits, “1,” “0,” respectively indicate that the text token wasextracted from second document 300 and the first section of seconddocument 300, and the third “0” refers to the text token being extractedfrom the first sentence of the first section of second document 300.Text token “Token_0” may be assigned the token identifier“Text.1.0.0.0,” where the first three digits, “1,” “0,” “0” refer to thetext token being extracted from second document 300, the first sectionof second document 300, and the first sentence of the first section ofsecond document 300. The fourth digit, “0,” indicates that the texttoken is the first word in the first sentence of the first section ofsecond document 300.

In some embodiments, first NLP subsystem 112 may perform one or moreadditional speech processing steps to the raw text data, the tokenizedtext data (e.g., text data representing each text token, text datarepresenting a set of text tokens, text data representing all of thetext tokens, etc.), the raw text data and the tokenized text data, orother forms or versions of text data, or combinations thereof. Forexample, first NLP subsystem 112 may perform stop word removal to thetext tokens to remove any stop words that are present. Some example stopwords include, but are not limited to, (which is to not imply that otherlists are limiting), “the,” “in,” “an,” “what,” etc. A stop word is aword that helps while reading, but whose removal does not impact thecritical concepts and terms of the sentence. In some embodiments, eachdata structure (e.g., data structures 404, 454) may include a columnincluding a flag, binary bit (e.g., logical 1, 0), or other indicatorthat classifies a given text token as being a stop word or not being astop word. This may allow first NLP subsystem 112 to filter out whichtext tokens are not to be used for additional natural languageprocessing (e.g., text tokens having an indicator specifying that thetext tokens are stop words).

As another example, first NLP subsystem 112 may perform stemming toreduce a particular word to its word stem. For instance, a stem of theword “running” is “run.” The resulting stemmed terms may be used foradditional natural language analysis further along the pipeline ofensemble network 170. In some embodiments, each data structure (e.g.,data structures 404, 454) may include a column indicating the text tokenand an updated or revised text token corresponding to a stemmed versionof the text token, if stemmed. When performing later natural languageprocessing, the stemmed version of the text tokens may be used to helpspeed up the computation time making the comparison of text tokensconsistent. For example, if one text token is “running” and another is“ran,” a text token level similarity would indicate that these two texttokens represent different words. However, when stemmed, both texttokens become “run,” and thus the text tokens really have a high-levelof similarity that would not be determined without stemming.

As still yet another example, first NLP subsystem 112 may performtagging which categorizes and assigns (tags) each text token with apart-of-speech (POS) tag indicating which part of speech the text tokenrefers to. In other words, tagging identifies whether a given text tokenrepresents a noun, a verb, a proper noun, an adjective, or the like. Insome embodiments, first NLP model 402 may be further configured todetermine the POS tag for a given text token. First NLP model 402 may betrained based on training data including a large number (e.g., 1,000,000or more) words each including a tag indicating the POS the wordscorresponds to. In some embodiments, each data structure (e.g., datastructures 404, 454) may include a column indicating the POS tagassigned to a text token.

In some embodiments, a support vector machine (SVM) may be trained witha training data to obtain a trained model for performing featureextraction. In some embodiments, a classifier may be trained usingextracted features from an earlier layer of first NLP model 402 (orother models included in ensemble network 170).

FIG. 5 illustrates an example second NLP subsystem 114 configured togenerate a set of textual feature vectors, in accordance with variousembodiments. Second NLP subsystem 114 may obtain first data structure404 and second data structure 454. Data structures 404 and 454 may beobtained from first NLP subsystem 112 or from data structure database136. In some embodiments, first and second data structures 404 and 454may be obtain in parallel, sequentially, or in a different order.Additionally, while the aforementioned includes two data structures,additional data structures may also be processed by second NLP subsystem114 in parallel or sequentially.

Some embodiments include second NLP subsystem 114 causing first datastructure 404 and second data structure 454 to be provided, as input, toa second NLP model 502. Second NLP model 502 may be trained to generatea feature vector representing each text token included within eachsentence of each section of each document. The feature vectors for eachtext token may be concatenated to obtain a feature vector representing agiven sentence from a section of each document (e.g., first and seconddocuments 200 and 300), a feature vector representing some or all of thesentences from a given section of each document, a feature vectorrepresenting some or all sections of a given document, or other featurevectors.

In some embodiments, second NLP model 502 may be configured to performnamed entity recognition for the text tokens. Named entity recognition(NER) refers to a process of associated a text token with apre-classified entity (e.g., a named entity) such that a given token hasa meaning identifiable to computer system 102. A downstream processcalled named entity resolution, or entity resolution, may be configuredto link a given text token to a specific known entity. For example, thetext token “Atlanta,” may be resolved to the named entity “Atlanta”corresponding to the city in Georgia, whereas the text token refers to astring of alphanumeric characters with no computer-processed meaning.NER and entity resolution processing may utilize gazetteer information,such as for matching text results with different entities (e.g., titles,names, places, etc.).

In some embodiments, second NLP model 502 may further be configured togenerate word embeddings for the text tokens. Word embeddings refer tolearned representations of individual words or terms that areprocessable by computer system 102. Some example machine learning modelsthat may be used to generate word embeddings, and may be implemented as,or a portion of, second NLP model 502, include, but are not limited to,(which is not to imply that other lists are limiting), Word2Vec,Continuous Bag-of-Words (CBOW) model, Continuous Skip-Gram Model, GlobalVectors for Word Representations (GloVe) model, Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA), Bert, or other machine learning models. Second NLP model 502generates a vector representation (e.g., a feature vector) of a giventext token based on the resolved entity, the POS, other text tokens inthe sentence, other text tokens in the section, or other information.Each feature vector may be n-dimensions in size, where each dimensionrefers to a feature of the word. The number of dimensions of the featurevector may be defined by second NLP model 502. For instance, a featurespace for second NLP model 502 may be 50 or more dimensions, 100 or moredimensions, 1,000 or more dimensions, or more.

In some embodiments, second NLP model 502 may generate a set of textualfeature vectors 510 representing each text token from a given sentenceof a given section of a document. In some cases, the text tokensrepresented by set of textual feature vectors 510 are stemmed texttokens where stop words have already been removed. However,alternatively, the text tokens may include unstemmed text tokens, stopwords, or both. In some embodiments, second NLP model 502 may generate afeature vector for each document, for each section, for each sentence,for each word, or for other subdivisions of a document. For instance, asseen with reference to FIG. 5, second NLP model 502 may generate afeature vector X₀₀ and another feature vector X₁₀. For example, featurevectors X₀₀ and X₁₀ respectively represent a feature vector of the firstsection of first document 200 and second document 300. Feature vectorX₀₀ may be an m-dimensional vector including m elements, and featurevector X₁₀ may be a p-dimensional vector including p elements, where mand p can be equal or not equal. Each element in feature vectors X₀₀ andX₁₀ refers to a value associated with another feature vectorrepresenting a sentence from that section. For example, feature vectorX₀₀ may include elements {X₀₀₀, X₀₀₁, X₀₀₂, . . . , X_(00m)}, whereelement X₀₀₀ is associated with a feature vector representing a firstsentence from a first section of first document 200, element X₀₀₁ isassociated with a feature vector representing a second sentence from thefirst section of first document 200, and the like. Continuing theexample, the feature vector X₀₀₀, representing the words included in thefirst sentence of the first section of first document 200, may includen-elements, where each element represents a feature vector of thecorresponding word. For instance, feature vector X₀₀₀ may includeelements {X₀₀₀₀, X₀₀₀₁, X₀₀₀₂, . . . , X_(000n)}, where element X₀₀₀₀ isassociated with a feature vector representing a first word in a firstsentence from a first section of first document 200, element X₀₀₀₁ isassociated with a feature vector representing a second word in the firstsentence from the first section of first document 200, and the like. Insome embodiments, upon being generated, some or all of the featurevectors may be stored in feature vector database 138. For example, setof textual feature vectors 510, including feature vectors representingeach word in a first sentence of first document 200, may be stored infeature vector database 138.

FIG. 6A illustrates an example third NLP subsystem 116 configured togenerate and rank text token scores, in accordance with variousembodiments. In some embodiments, third NLP subsystem 116 may beconfigured to obtain data structures, feature vectors, or both, from adatabase (e.g., data structure database 136, feature vector database138), or other subsystems of computer system 102, and provide, as input,the data structures and/or feature vectors to a third NLP model 602.Third NLP model 602 may be configured to determine how well eachrequirement from first document 200 is addressed by a correspondingsection from second document 300. For example, as mentioned above, firstdocument 200 includes a first section having a first requirement,labeled “Req. 1a.” Some embodiments expect a response to the firstrequirement to be included within the first section of second document200. Therefore, third NLP model 602 determines whether the first sectionof second document 300 includes a suitable response to the firstrequirement specified in the first section of first document 200.

In some embodiments, third NLP model 602 may compute a set of text tokensimilarity scores 604 that indicate how similar each text token from arequirement is to each text token from a corresponding section of aresponse document. For example, the first requirement of the firstsection of first document 200 recites a sentence, “The proposal shall .. . ,” and the first section of second document 300 includes one or moresentences, “Token_0, Token_1, Token_2 . . . .” In order to determine howwell the sentences of the first section of second document 300 addressthe first requirement, a similarity score may be computed between eachtext token from the two documents. For instance, third NLP model 602 maycompare the first word, “The,” to each text token from the first sectionof second document 300. Third NLP model 602 may output text tokensimilarity scores indicating how similar a pair of text tokens are toone another. For example, text token similarity score S₀₀ indicates howsimilar the text tokens “The” and “Token_0” are to one another.

In some embodiments, the text token similarity scores for a text tokenfrom a requirement and each text token included in a correspondingsection of a response document may be combined to determine an overalltext token similarity score for that text token. As an example, for texttoken “proposal” of the first requirement of the first section of firstdocument 200, third NLP model 602 may compute text token similarityscores S₁₀, S₁₁, S₁₂, which respectively indicate a similarity betweenthe text token “proposal” and each of the text tokens “Token_0, Token_1,Token_2.” In some cases, the overall text token similarity score for thetext token “proposal” may be computed by combining S₁₀, S₁₁, and S₁₂.

In some embodiments, in addition to or instead of computing text tokensimilarity scores 604, third NLP model 602 may generate a ranking ofeach text token from each requirement included within each section offirst document 200. For instance, third NLP model 602 may output aranking of text token similarity scores 606, which ranks text tokensimilarity scores for each section. The text token similarity scores maybe computed, as described above, by combining an individual text tokensimilarity score for each text token in one requirement's sentence(e.g., a sentence including the predefined keyword) of first document200 with each of the text tokens in a corresponding section of seconddocument 300. The resulting overall text token similarity score mayindicate, for a given section, how significant a particular text tokenis. Some embodiments include averaging each individual text token scorefor a given requirement sentence to obtain an overall text tokensimilarity score for that requirement.

In some embodiments, third NLP model 602 may perform a termfrequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) analysis between firstdocument 200 and second document 300. TF-IDF is a measure of howfrequently a given text token appears in a document (or a section of adocument) against how important that word is to other documents in acorpus (or sections in the document) being analyzed. As an example,third NLP model 602 may determine the term frequency (TF) based on howfrequently a text token from a requirement sentence of a first sectionof first document 200 appears in an entirety of first document 200, andmay determine the inverse document frequency (IDF) based on howfrequently the text token appears in first document 200 and seconddocument 300. In some embodiments, third NLP model 602 may compute theTF-IDF for each text token based on each set of textual feature vectorscomputed for first document 200 and second document 300. Third NLP model602 may determine a significance score for each text token based on theresults of the TF-IDF analysis, outputting ranking of text tokensimilarity scores 606 indicating which text tokens are “mostsignificant” (e.g., which text tokens have a greatest TF-IDF score).

In some embodiments, responsive to identifying the most significant texttokens in each section of first document 200 and second document 300,third NLP subsystem 116 may compute a statistical similarity score forpairs of terms from the identified most significant text tokens. Forexample, if text tokens T1-T10 were identified as being the mostsignificant text tokens across first document 200 and second document300, then third NLP subsystem 116 may retrieve (or construct) a featurevector for each of text tokens T1-T10, and compute a text tokensimilarity score for the text tokens. Text token T1, for example, may becompared to text tokens T2, T3, . . . , T10 to obtain text tokensimilarity scores S12-S19, text token T2 may be compared to text tokensT1, T3, T4, . . . , T10, and so on, to obtain text token similarityscores for pairs of text tokens in a given section of each document.

In some embodiments, the text token similarity score refers to adistance between two feature vectors in a feature space formed based onthe dimensionality of the text token feature vectors. As an example,with reference to FIG. 6B, the feature vector for text token T1 may becompared to the feature vector for text token T2. Graph 620 of FIG. 6Bdepicts that a distance between the feature vectors text tokens T1 andT2 is angle θ1. Therefore, the text token similarity score S12 betweentext tokens T1 and T2 may be determined based on angle θ1. In someembodiments, the distance between two feature vectors, as shown in FIG.6B, refers to a Euclidian distance, an L2 distance, a cosine distance, aMinkowski distance, a Hamming distance, or any other vector spacedistance measure, or a combination thereof.

Based on the text token similarity scores, third NLP subsystem 116 maydetermine whether a given requirement from a section of first document200 has been addressed by a corresponding section of second document300. For example, if a particular text token from a requirement sentenceof a first section of first document 200 is determined to be dissimilarfrom the most significant text tokens identified from the first sectionof second document 300, then this may indicate that the first section ofsecond document 300 needs to be updated. Based on the analysis by thirdNLP model 602, third NLP subsystem 116 may output a set of text tokensimilarity scores for each of the most significant text tokensidentified by the TD-IDF analysis.

FIG. 7A illustrated an example fourth NLP subsystem 118 configured togenerate semantic similarity scores for text tokens, in accordance withvarious embodiments. Fourth NLP subsystem 118 may obtain a first set offeature vectors 702 and a second set of feature vectors 704 from featurevector database 138, one of the other subsystems of computer system 102,a combination thereof, or from other sources. In some cases, fourth NLPsubsystem 118 may generate first and second sets of feature vectors 702and 704. First set of feature vectors 702 includes a plurality offeature vectors representing the text tokens included in a requirementand/or a section of first document 200. Alternatively, first set offeature vectors 702 may include feature vectors representing text tokensincluded in multiple sections of first document 200. In this scenario,each feature vector can include section identifiers to indicate withinwhich section the corresponding text token was included. Second set offeature vectors 702 may include feature vectors representing text tokensincluded in a section of second document 300, however second set offeature vectors 704 may also include feature vectors representing texttokens included in other sections of second document 300 as well. In thelatter scenario, each feature vector may include section identifiersindicating within which section the corresponding text token wasincluded.

Fourth NLP subsystem 118 may implement a fourth NLP model 706, whichtakes, as input, first set of feature vectors 702 and second set offeature vectors 704, and outputs semantic similarity scores indicatinghow semantically similar text tokens from a given section of firstdocument 200 are to text tokens from that same section of seconddocument 300. In some embodiments, fourth NLP model 706 may determine asemantic similarity of the N most common text tokens from first document200 and second document 300, and may determine the semantic similaritybetween those N-most common text tokens.

A semantic similarity score refers to a score that indicates how similara first word's meaning is to a second word's meaning, a first sentence'smeaning is to a second sentence's meaning, a first document's meaning isto a second document's meaning, and the like. To compute the semanticsimilarity score, fourth NLP model 706 may determine a meaning of onetext token, a meaning of another token, and determine how similar thosetwo meanings are. Fourth NLP model 706 may further determine how similaran individual text token is to a set of text tokens, or how similar aset of text tokens is to another set of text tokens.

Performing the semantic similarity analysis may include performing wordsense disambiguation and relationship extraction. Word sensedisambiguation refers to a process whereby a meaning is attributed to atext token. Certain words may have different meanings differentiableonly by the context of the other words. For example, the word “ball” canrefer to a spherical object or a formal dance party. Which meaning isattributed to the word depends on the other words in the sentence.Semantic analysis includes various subprocesses, including identifyinghypernyms and hyponyms, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, as well as othersemantic analysis processes, or combinations thereof. Relationshipextraction refers to a process where semantic relationships betweenwords within text are detects. For example, for the sentence, “Jacklives in California,” the entities “Jack” and “California” are relatedto one another.

To perform semantic analysis, the meaning of each lexical item from asentence is determined. Lexical items refer to words, sub-words,n-grams, phrases, etc., whose underlying meaning is determined. In someembodiments, lexical items within a document (e.g., a sentence,sentences, sections of a document, a document, etc.) are identified andthe lexical items are classified into different categories. Fourth NLPmodel 706 may include a classification model, which is also referred toas a classifier, that determines whether a given lexical item isassociated with one or more predefined categories. The classifier may beconfigured to output a vector representing how related each lexical itemis to one of the predefined categories. Furthermore, fourth NLP model706 may be configured to identify relationships between entitiesrecognized within text. For example, if one entity within a sentencerepresents a person's name and another sentence represents a name of acompany, fourth NLP model 706 may determine that these two entities havea relationship to one another based on predetermined contextualrelationship information, which indicates how closely related two ormore different entities are. For instance, the predetermined contextualrelationship information may indicate that an entity resolved to be acity is related to another entity, “State,” which is related to yetanother entity, “Country,” and so on. The category information and theentity relationship information may be used by fourth NLP model 706 todetermine how semantic similar two text tokens are.

In some embodiments, fourth NLP model 706 generates a semanticsimilarity score between text tokens from a corresponding section offirst document 200 and second document 300. For example, fourth NLPmodel 706 may determine how semantically similar text tokens from afirst sentence of a first section of first document 200 are to texttokens from one or more sentences of the first section of seconddocument 300. In some cases, feature vector X₀₀₀ and feature vector X₁₀₀respectively correspond to a feature vector representing each text tokenincluded in a first sentence from the first section of first document200, where the first sentence includes the predefined keyword, and afeature vector representing each text token included in the sentencesfrom the first section of second document 300. In some embodiments, thetext tokens referenced by feature vectors X₀₀₀ and X₁₀₀ have had stopwords removed, have been stemmed, or have had additional or alternativespeech processes performed thereto. Feature vector X₀₀₀ may includen-elements, X₀₀₀₀, X₀₀₀₁, . . . , X_(000n), where each element refers toa feature vector of the n-th term from the sentence of the first sectionof first document 200, and feature vector X₁₀₀ may include n-elements,X₁₀₀₀, X₁₀₀₁, . . . , X_(100n), where each element refers to a featurevector of the n-th term from the sentences in the first section ofsecond document 300. In some embodiments, the number of elements infeature vector X₀₀₀ and X₁₀₀ differ.

To determine how semantically similar two feature vectors are, fourthNLP model 706 may compute a semantic similarity score based on adistance between the two feature vectors in a feature space. In someembodiments, the feature vectors included in first set of featurevectors 702 and second set of feature vectors 704 encode semanticinformation about the text token or tokens represented by acorresponding feature vector. The semantic information may include asemantic meaning of a term, relationship information between entitiesrepresented by the text tokens, or other information used fordetermining how semantically similar two terms are. As mentioned above,determining the semantic similarity score between two text tokens, twosets of text tokens, or other terms, may include determining a distancebetween two feature vectors in the feature space defined by fourth NLPmodel 706. As an example, with reference to FIG. 7B, graph 720 indicatesthat a distance between feature vector X₀₀₀ and X₁₀₀ in a feature spacedefined by dimensions D0 and D1, may be angle θ2. In some embodiments,the semantic similarity score may be determined based on the distance(e.g., angle θ2). Computing the distance between feature vectors mayinclude computing a Euclidian distance, an L2 distance, a cosine angle,or other metrics, or combinations thereof.

In some embodiments, fourth NLP model 706 may output a set of semanticsimilarity scores 708. Each semantic similarity score output indicateshow semantically similar two feature vectors are. The semanticsimilarity scores may be numerical values between 0.0 and 1.0, wheresemantic similarity scores closer to 1.0 refer to feature vectors thatrepresent semantically similar text tokens, while semantic similarityscores closer to 0.0 refer to feature vectors that representsemantically dissimilar text tokens.

In some embodiments, the semantic similarity scores for each text tokenin each requirement sentence (e.g., a sentence including the predefinedkeyword) of a section of first document 200 may be combined to generatea section semantic score for a given section. As an example, thesemantic similarity scores for each requirement sentence may be averagedtogether to obtain an average semantic similarity score for a particularsection. A same or similar process may be performed for second document300, where the semantic similarity scores for each text token in thesentences of a section of second document 300 may be combined togenerate a section semantic score for the section. As an example, thesemantic similarity scores for the sentences included in a first sectionof second document 300 may be averaged together to obtain an averagesemantic similarity score for the first section.

FIG. 8 illustrates an example data flag subsystem 120 for determiningwhether a data flag is to be assigned to a section of a document toindicate whether the section does not comply with one or morerequirements of a corresponding section from a first document, inaccordance with various embodiments. In some embodiments, data flagsubsystem 120 may determine whether a set of text token similarityscores satisfies a text token similarity threshold condition. The texttoken similarity threshold condition can be satisfied if a text tokensimilarity score is greater than or equal to a text token similaritythreshold score. The text token similarity threshold score may bepredefined or dynamically configurable, and indicates whether a giventext token in a section of first document 200 is represented well enoughby the corresponding section from second document 300. As an example,the text token similarity threshold score may be a numerical valuebetween 0.0 and 1.0, such as 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.95, or other values. Todetermine whether the text token similarity threshold condition issatisfied, a text token similarity threshold score for a text token maybe compared to the text token similarity threshold score to determinewhether the text token similarity score is greater than or equal to thetext token similarity threshold score. If so, then that text token maybe classified as being “well represented” within a corresponding sectionof second document 300. However, if the text token similarity score isless than the text token similarity threshold score, then that texttoken may be classified as being “not well represented” within thecorresponding section of second document 300.

Some embodiments text token similarity scores 604 and/or text tokensimilarity scores included in ranking of text token similarity scores606 or other sets of text token similarity scores are analyzed todetermine whether they satisfy the text token similarity thresholdcondition. As mentioned above, the text token similarity scores indicatehow similar a text token included within a sentence of a section offirst document 200 is to text tokens included within sentences of thesame section of second document 300. In some embodiments, the texttokens analyzed represent the most significant text tokens (e.g., texttokens having a highest text token similarity score). However, in someembodiments, all of the text token similarity scores may be analyzed todetermine whether they satisfy the text token similarity thresholdcondition.

Data flag subsystem 120 may compare each text token similarity score toa text token threshold score to determine whether that text tokensimilarity score satisfies the text token similarity thresholdcondition. The text token threshold score may be predefined orconfigurable, and may be stored in threshold database 804. Differenttext token threshold scores may be used for different documents.Additionally, different text token threshold scores may be used based onhow stringent the compliance between first document 200 and seconddocument 300 are desired to be. For example, larger text token thresholdscores (e.g., text token similarity threshold scores greater than orequal to 0.75, 0.85, 0.95, or other values) may cause more compliantresponse documents and/or sections of response documents to beidentified, whereas lower text token threshold scores (e.g., text tokensimilarity threshold scores less than or equal to 0.35, 0.25, 0.15, orother values may identify less compliant response documents and/orsections of the response documents. Data flag subsystem 120 may generateupdated text token similarity scores 806 based on whether text tokensimilarity scores 604, 606 satisfied the text token similarity thresholdcondition. For example, text tokens having text token similarity scoresthat are greater than or equal to text token threshold score 802 mayhave their updated score remain the same as before. In other words, if atext token similarity score S is greater than a text token similaritythreshold score S_(threshold), then updated text token similarity scores806 may store the score S as the updated text token similarity score.However, if a text token similarity score is less than text tokenthreshold score 802, the updated text token similarity score may belisted 0, or another value, or a reference value indicative of a scorethat does not satisfy the text token similarity threshold condition. Insome embodiments, each updated text token similarity score that islisted as 0, another predefined value, or the reference value, may havedata flag metadata 808 generated and assigned to a corresponding texttoken with which the text token similarity score relates to, a sectionfrom a corresponding document that the text token was obtained from,and/or the document that the text token was included within. Data flagmetadata 808 may be stored in association with a given document that itrelates to, and data flag metadata 808 and the document may be stored indocument database 134. As an illustrative example, if a text tokensimilarity score for a text token included within a first sentence of afirst section of first document 200 does not satisfy the text tokensimilarity threshold condition, when compared with some or all of seconddocument 300, then data flag metadata 808 may be generated and stored inassociation with first document 200, second document 300, or otherdocuments, or combinations thereof. In some embodiments, first document200 and/or second document 300 may be displayed after the text tokensimilarity analysis has been performed and, for each text token,sentence, or section of first document 200. As indicated by data flagmetadata 808, if a particular text token's similarity score failed tosatisfy the text token similarity threshold condition, data flagsubsystem 120 may cause an indicator or other graphical alert to bedisplayed within first document 200, second document 300, or both, toalert an individual/entity that some or all of one or more sections ofsecond document 300 are not compliant with one or more requirementsspecified by first document 200. As an example, with reference to FIG.9, second document 300, when displayed, may include a graphicalindicator 900. Graphical indicator 900 may indicate that a particularsection (e.g., section 1) of second document 300 fails to comply with arequirement specified in the corresponding section of first document200. In some embodiments, graphical indicator 900 may be displayedproximate a text token, sentence including the text token, section,which included the text token having the text token similarity scorethat did not satisfy the text token similarity threshold condition. Insome embodiments, graphical indicator 900 may include additionalinformation, resources, recommendations, or a combination thereof,related to the text token that caused graphical indicator 900 to bedisplayed. For example, graphical indicator 900 may include a link to aportion of first document 200 where the text token was recited. Asanother example, graphical indicator 900 may include additionalstatistics regarding the text token (e.g., TF score, commonly foundsemantically similar text tokens, etc.). In some cases, graphicalindicator 900 may include recommendations (e.g., recommended changes tothe sentences of second document 300) to increase the likelihood of thetext token similarity score satisfying the text token similaritythreshold condition.

In some embodiments, edits to response text 304 a of first section 302 aof second document 300 may be updated in response to display ofgraphical indicator 900. As mentioned before, the update may be basedon, or automatically implemented based on, the recommended edits.Alternatively or additionally, the updates may include edits to some orall of the words included within response text 304 a. After updatingfirst section 302 a and any other sections that are identified asneeding to be updated, the updated version of second document 300 maysaved to document database 134, and re-analyzed by ensemble network 170.

Returning to FIG. 8, in addition to determining whether one or more texttokens satisfy a text token similarity threshold condition, data flagsubsystem 120 may also be configured to determine whether a semanticsimilarity score satisfies a semantic similarity threshold condition. Insome embodiments, the semantic similarity threshold condition issatisfied when a semantic similarity score for a given text token pairgreater than or equal to a semantic similarity threshold score 810. Forexample, semantic similarity threshold score 810 may be a numericalvalue between 0.0 and 1.0, such as 0.6 or higher, 0.7 or higher, 0.8 orhigher, and the like. Semantic similarity threshold score 810 may bepredefined or dynamically configurable, and may be stored in thresholddatabase 804. In response to determining whether semantic similarityscores 708 satisfy the semantic similarity threshold condition, dataflag subsystem 120 may generate updated semantic similarity scores 812.Similar to updated text token similarity scores 806, updated semanticsimilarity scores 812 may indicate which semantic similarity scores 708satisfy or do not satisfy the semantic similarity threshold condition.Accordingly, another data flag may be assigned to a text token,sentence, section, or document that caused a given semantic similarityscore to fail the semantic similarity threshold condition. In someembodiments, data flag metadata 808 may further include metadataindicating which semantic similarity scores are not compliant with aparticular requirement from first document 200. When displayed, such asin FIG. 9, a graphical indicator may be displayed proximate a texttoken, sentence, section, or document that caused the semanticsimilarity score to fail the semantic similarity threshold condition.Additionally, as described above, the graphical indicator may includeadditional information, such as suggested edits to improve the semanticsimilarity score, related portions of second document 300 that alsoinclude a particular text token, as well as other information that canbe used to improve the semantic similarity score.

In some embodiments, a text token similarity score, a semanticsimilarity score, or other scores, may be computed for each section in adocument, multiple sections of a document, an entire document, or othersubdivisions or combinations of documents. For example, a sectionsemantic similarity score may be computed based on the semanticsimilarity score for each text token of the sentences included in agiven section. In some embodiments, the semantic similarity scores forthe text tokens in a section may be averaged together, or otherwisecombined using some weighted combination of values, to obtain a sectionsemantic similarity score. With a section semantic similarity score, adocument semantic similarity score may be computed by averaging, orperforming a weighted combination of, each section semantic similarityscore. A similar process may occur for text token similarity scores,thereby allowing a section text token similarity score to be generatedfor each section of a document, and/or a document text token similarityscore for a given document.

In some embodiments, each section of a document may be weighteddifferently. Therefore, when computing a document's text tokensimilarity score and/or semantic similarity score, the weights for eachsection can influence how well the document's final scores will be.Different sections may have different weights, which is not to implythat every section has a different weight, as some sections may havesimilar weightings as other sections, and therefore a low score for asection that has a small weight will influence the document's overallscore much less than a low score would for a section that has a largeweight.

The weights for each section may be predefined by computer system 102,an entity operating client device 104, a creator of first document 200,or other sources. The different weights may also be adjustable manuallyor automatically. In some embodiments, the weights may be includedwithin a particular section of first document 200 (and/or seconddocument 300). For example, a particular section of first document 200may include weight data including a weight to be attributed to eachsection. In some embodiments, the weight data may be extracted fromfirst document 200 prior to first document 200 and/or second document300 being analyzed by ensemble network 170. The weight data may encode aweight to be assigned to each section when computing a document'scorresponding score. In some embodiments, multiple sets of weight datamay be included in first document 200, where each set of weight datarelates to a different score to be computed for second document 300. Forexample, a first weight may be assigned to a section of second document300 for computing a text token similarity score for second document 300,whereas a second weight may be assigned to that same section of seconddocument 300 for computing a semantic similarity score for seconddocument 300.

In some embodiments, a determination may be made as to whether adocument's text token similarity score and/or semantic similarity scoresatisfy the text token similarity threshold condition and/or thesemantic similarity threshold condition. For instance, based on theweighted combination of the section semantic similarity scores for eachsection of second document 300, the overall semantic similarity scorefor second document 300 may be computed and compared to the semanticsimilarity threshold score. If the overall semantic similarity score forsecond document 300 is less than the semantic similarity thresholdscore, second document 300 may be classified as being semanticallydifferent from first document 200, and thus edits to the sentences insome or all of the sections of second document 300 may be needed.

In some embodiments, the weights assigned to a given section may beadjusted. For instance, after extracting the weight data from firstdocument 200, one or more of the weights may be adjusted. In someembodiments, each weight may be equal, and adjustments to the weightsmay be determined based on edits made to portions of second document 300and the recomputed scores for second document 300.

In some embodiments, one or more of first NLP model 402, second NLPmodel 502, third NLP model 602, and fourth NLP model 706 may be a deeplearning model, such as, and without limitation, a convolutional neuralnetwork (CNN), a region-based CNN (R-CNN), a Fast R-CNN, a Masked R-CNN,Single Shot Multibox (SSD), and a You-Only-Look-Once (YOLO) model(lists, such as this one, should not be read to require items in thelist be non-overlapping, as members may include a genus or speciesthereof, for instance, a R-CNN is a species of CNN and a list like thisone should not be read to suggest otherwise). As an example, an R-CNNmay take each input text, extract entities from the text, and computefeatures for the text using a CNN. The features of the text may then beclassified using a class-specific SVM, identifying text tokens includedin the text, named entities text tokens are resolved to be,topic/category information for each text token, or other information. Insome embodiments, a transformer model may be employed for one or more ofthe NLP models (e.g., NLP models 402, 502, 602, 706). For example, theBERT language model may be used for one or more of the NLP models.

Tables 1-3 below includes a breakdown of the results of an analysisbetween a first document (e.g., first document 200) and a seconddocument (e.g., second document 300).

TABLE 1 Section Text 1 The individual shall support all aspects of datareview, production, and management for all of the entity's dataproduction. 2 Survey data is collected continuously and delivered to theentity's program weekly and the individual shall follow standardizeddata processing procedures developed by the institute's staff to reviewdata and prepare reports describing data quality and condition, whichshall include descriptions of data contents, assessment ofcompleteness/missingness, descriptive statistics including frequencies,crosstabs, means, and/or univariate statistics, for use by theinstitute's staff in assessing the overall quality of the data and datacollection operations and in further developing data productionspecifications for creation of public use datasets and other dataproducts, analyses, and/or publications. 3 Data production tasks shallinclude writing program code to perform data editing, validation, andpreparation of files for public release or archiving, and preparingassociated user documentation including data dictionaries with codevalues, ranges, and frequencies. 4 Data management tasks will includearchiving of data sets, data review and pro- duction specifications,data quality reports, program code with log and list files, and anyother related data production files.

TABLE 2 Mean Avg. Avg. Avg. Sim. Diff. Sim. per per Max. # of Total % of0 Score file sent. Sim. 0 s Ratings Ratings 3.51 3.5 0.01 0.238612 28 6940.58 5.83 3.5 2.33 0.234362 11 69 15.94 3.85 3.5 0.35 0.210541 27 6939.13 4.05 3.5 0.55 0.231706 23 69 33.33

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In Table 1, each sentence from the first document (e.g., document 200)is extracted and order by section. For simplicity, each section includesone sentence, however other sections may include one or more sentences,characteristics, graphs, or other information. In some embodiments, theraw text data representing each sentence is extracted by a first NLPmodel, such as a model configured to identify a location of text in agiven document, and extract the raw text data representing the text.This may include parsing the raw text into candidate text tokens eachrepresenting a string of characters separated from other strings ofcharacters by one or more delimiters (e.g., commas, semicolons, spaces,etc.). In some embodiments, a position of each candidate text token maybe encoded into the text token to all for attention mechanisms todetermine an importance of a given text token to other text tokens fromthe raw text.

In Table 2, an average similarity score for each sentence of the seconddocument may be computed. The average similarity score indicates howsimilar each sentence from a given section of the first document is to acorresponding sentence of a corresponding section of the seconddocument. The similarity between the two sentences may be determinedbased on how similar the text tokens of each sentence is to the texttokens of the other sentence. The average similarity score per file. Theaverage similarity score per file may be computed by averaging thesimilarity score of each section. (It should be noted that the file mayinclude additional sections not shown, and the average similarity scoreper file may be computed using additional sections' similarity scores.)

The mean average difference per sentence (and section) may be computedby computing a difference between the average similarity of eachsentence/section to the average similarity score of the file. In someembodiments, differences that are positive indicate that the sentence orsentences of the section of the second document satisfy the requirementsset forth in the corresponding section of the first document as thewords included in the section of the second document are similar to thewords included in the corresponding section of the first document.Differences that are negative mean that sentences of the section of thesecond document may need to be edited to improve their similarity to therequirements set forth in the corresponding section of the firstdocument. The maximum similarity value may indicate which text token ofa given sentence has a greatest similarity to a text token of thecorresponding sentence of the first document. For example, the texttoken “shall” from the sentence of the first section may have thegreatest similarity score, 0.238612. The number of zeros indicates atotal number of zeros included in the similarity vector describing thesentence.

The total ratings in the array represents a total number of similarityratings identified by the NLP models. The total number of similarityratings indicates how many significant words a given sentence includesafter stop words are removed as well as other non-significantcharacters. The percentage of zero ratings indicates the percentage ofzeros included in the similarity vector. The cleaned text represents astring of the significant words included in the sentence after stopwords have been removed and other pre-processing steps are performed.The similarity vector is a representation of the similarity ratings foreach of the words in the first document. In some embodiments, Tables 1-3may be provided in a results document for review by a user. Furthermore,in some embodiments, a document may be output with data flags indicatingwhen a particular section has a similarity score that does not satisfy athreshold condition. As an example, a graphical indicator (e.g.,graphical indicator 900) may indicate that a particular section (e.g.,section 1) of first document 200 fails to comply with a requirementspecified in the corresponding section (e.g., that 0.01 is less than athreshold score of 0.1).

The machine learning techniques that can be used in the systemsdescribed herein may include, but are not limited to (which is not tosuggest that any other list is limiting), any of the following: OrdinaryLeast Squares Regression (OLSR), Linear Regression, Logistic Regression,Stepwise Regression, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS),Locally Estimated Scatterplot Smoothing (LOESS), Instance-basedAlgorithms, k-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Learning Vector Quantization(LVQ), Self-Organizing Map (SOM), Locally Weighted Learning (LWL),Regularization Algorithms, Ridge Regression, Least Absolute Shrinkageand Selection Operator (LASSO), Elastic Net, Least-Angle Regression(LARS), Decision Tree Algorithms, Classification and Regression Tree(CART), Iterative Dichotomizer 3 (ID3), C4.5 and C5.0 (differentversions of a powerful approach), Chi-squared Automatic InteractionDetection (CHAID), Decision Stump, M5, Conditional Decision Trees, NaiveBayes, Gaussian Naive Bayes, Causality Networks (CN), Multinomial NaiveBayes, Averaged One-Dependence Estimators (AODE), Bayesian BeliefNetwork (BBN), Bayesian Network (BN), k-Means, k-Medians, K-cluster,Expectation Maximization (EM), Hierarchical Clustering, Association RuleLearning Algorithms, A-priori algorithm, Eclat algorithm, ArtificialNeural Network Algorithms, Perceptron, Back-Propagation, HopfieldNetwork, Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN), Deep Learning Algorithms,Deep Boltzmann Machine (DBM), Deep Belief Networks (DBN), ConvolutionalNeural Network (CNN), Deep Metric Learning, Stacked Auto-Encoders,Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms, Principal Component Analysis (PCA),Principal Component Regression (PCR), Partial Least Squares Regression(PLSR), Collaborative Filtering (CF), Latent Affinity Matching (LAM),Cerebri Value Computation (CVC), Multidimensional Scaling (MDS),Projection Pursuit, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), MixtureDiscriminant Analysis (MDA), Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA),Flexible Discriminant Analysis (FDA), Ensemble Algorithms, Boosting,Bootstrapped Aggregation (Bagging), AdaBoost, Stacked Generalization(blending), Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM), Gradient BoostedRegression Trees (GBRT), Random Forest, Computational intelligence(evolutionary algorithms, etc.), Computer Vision (CV), Natural LanguageProcessing (NLP), Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, GraphicalModels, or separable convolutions (e.g., depth-separable convolutions,spatial separable convolutions).

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FIGS. 10A-10D illustrate an example process 1000 for determining whetherone or more sections of a first document comply with at least onerequirement of a corresponding section from a second document, inaccordance with various embodiments. The processing operations of eachmethod presented below are intended to be illustrative and non-limiting.In some embodiments, for example, the methods may be accomplished withone or more additional operations not described, and/or without one ormore of the operations discussed. Additionally, the order in which theprocessing operations of the methods are illustrated (and describedbelow) is not intended to be limiting.

In some embodiments, the methods may be implemented in one or moreprocessing devices (e.g., a digital processor, an analog processor, adigital circuit designed to process information, an analog circuitdesigned to process information, a state machine, and/or othermechanisms for electronically processing information). The processingdevices may include one or more devices executing some or all of theoperations of the methods in response to instructions storedelectronically on an electronic storage medium. The processing devicesmay include one or more devices configured through hardware, firmware,and/or software to be specifically designed for execution of one or moreof the operations of the methods.

Process 1000 may begin at operation 1002. In operation 1002, a firstdocument including a plurality of sections may be obtained. In the firstdocument, each section may include at least one sentence including apredefined keyword. For example, first document 200 may include sections1-N, and each section may include at least one sentence which includes apredefined keyword (e.g., the word “shall”). In some embodiments,sections in the first document may include additional sentences that donot include the predefined keyword. For example, sentence 204 c of firstsection 202 a of first document 200 does not include an instance of thepredefined keyword (e.g., “shall”). In some embodiments, operation 1002may be performed by a subsystem that is the same or similar to first NLPsubsystem 112.

In operation 1004, a second document including the plurality of sectionsmay be obtained. In the second document, each section may include one ormore sentences. In some cases, the sentences in the sections do notinclude the predefined keyword, however in some embodiments, thepredefined keyword may be present. In some embodiments, second document300 includes a same number of sections as first document 200. Forexample, first document 200 includes sections 202 a-202 c, correspondingto sections 1-N, and second document 300 includes sections 302 a-302 c,which also correspond to sections 1-N. The sentences included in theN-th section of second document 300 may relate to one or more of thesentences in the N-th section of first document 200. For instance, thesentences in the N-th section of second document 300 may form a responseto a requirement specified by a sentence from the N-th section of firstdocument 200. In some embodiments, operation 1004 may be performed by asubsystem that is the same or similar to first NLP subsystem 112.

In operation 1006, each instance of a predefined keyword may beidentified in each section of the first document using a first NLPmodel. In some embodiments, each sentence in each section of the firstdocument (e.g., first document 200) may be parsed into text tokens, anda keyword spotting model may be used to determine whether a text tokenis the predefined keyword. In some embodiments, the keyword spottingmodel may be a deep neural network, such as a CNN, and may performcomparisons between characters included in a window that moves about thetext, and characters forming the predefined keyword. If the keywordspotting model determines that a particular set of characters representsthe predefined keyword, then the keyword spotting model may generate aninstruction to cause text data to be extracted from first document 200.In some embodiments, operation 1006 may be performed by a subsystem thatis the same or similar to first NLP subsystem 112.

In operation 1008, first text data representing first text tokens of theat least one sentence determined to include the predefined keyword ineach section of the first document may be extracted. In someembodiments, the first text data may represent sets of text tokens,where each set of text tokens is a word included in a separate sentencefrom a given section that include the predefined keyword. Alternativelyor additionally, multiple instances of text data may be extracted from asection of first document 200, where each instance of text datarepresenting text tokens from a single sentence that includes thepredefined keyword. In some embodiments, operation 1008 may be performedby a subsystem that is the same or similar to first NLP subsystem 112.

In operation 1010, second text data representing second text tokens ofthe sentences included in each section of the second document may beextracted. For example, an instance of text data representing texttokens from the sentences included in a first section 302 a of seconddocument 300 may be extracted, an instance of text data representingtext tokens from the sentences included in a second section 302 b ofsecond document 300 may be extracted, and so on. In some embodiments,operation 1010 may be performed by a subsystem that is the same orsimilar to first NLP subsystem 112.

In operation 1012, a feature vector representing each of the firsttokens may be generated using a second NLP model. In some embodiments,the feature vector may be generated based on the extracted first textdata. In some embodiments, generation of the feature vector for each ofthe first text tokens may produce a first set of textual featurevectors, where each feature vector from the first set of textual featurevectors represents a text token from the first set of text tokens. Insome embodiments, operation 1012 may be performed by a subsystem that isthe same or similar to second NLP subsystem 114.

In operation 1014, a feature vector representing each of the second texttokens may be generated using the second NLP model. In some embodiments,the feature vector may be generated based on the extracted second textdata. In some embodiments, generation of the feature vector for each ofthe second text tokens may produce a second set of textual featurevectors, where each feature vector from the second set of textualfeature vectors represents a text token from the second text tokens. Insome embodiments, operation 1014 may be performed by a subsystem that isthe same or similar to second NLP subsystem 114.

In operation 1016, a set of text tokens from the first and second texttokens that occur most frequently in the first document and the seconddocument may be determined. In some embodiments, a TF-IDF analysis ofthe first and second text tokens may be performed to determine the mostsignificant text tokens from each document. The TF-IDF analysis mayidentify which terms are most significant. For example, a word thatappears only once in an entire document is less significant than a wordthat appears most frequently in the entire document. In someembodiments, operation 1016 may be performed by a subsystem that is thesame or similar to third NLP subsystem 116.

In operation 1018, a set of feature vectors from the first and secondsets of feature vectors may be selected. Each selected feature vectormay correspond to a text token from the set of text tokens. As anexample, if text tokens Token_0, Token_1, and Token_2 are determined tobe the most significant terms in documents 200 and 300, then a featurevector corresponding to each of Token_0, Token_1, and Token_2 may beselected and retrieved from feature vector database 138. In someembodiments, operation 1018 may be performed by a subsystem that is thesame or similar to third NLP subsystem 116.

In operation 1020, a first distance in a first feature space may becomputed between each feature vector from the selected set of featurevectors. Using the third NLP model (e.g., third NLP model 602), adistance may be computed between pairs of feature vectors from theselected set of feature vectors. In some embodiments, the distance maybe a Euclidean distance, an L2 distance, a Minkowski distance, or otherfeature space distances. In some embodiments, operation 1020 may beperformed by a subsystem that is the same or similar to third NLPsubsystem 116.

In operation 1022, a text token similarity score between each text tokenfrom the selected set of text tokens may be determined based on thefirst distance. For example, a text token similarity score may bedetermined based on an angle θ1, as seen in FIG. 6B. In someembodiments, angles between feature vectors that are smaller (e.g., θ<20degrees, θ<10 degrees, etc.) indicate that the two text tokens aresimilar, whereas angles between feature vectors that are larger (e.g.,θ>70 degrees, θ<80 degrees, etc.) indicate that the two text tokens arenot similar. In some embodiments, operation 1022 may be performed by asubsystem that is the same or similar to third NLP subsystem 116.

In operation 1024, a section text token similarity score may begenerated for each section based on the text token similarity scores foreach text token of the selected set of text tokens in that section. Insome embodiments, the section text token similarity score may becomputed by combining the text token similarity scores of each texttoken in a particular section (or text tokens from text data extractedfrom a corresponding document). As an example, each text tokensimilarity score in a first section of second document 300 may beaveraged to obtain a section text token similarity score for the firstsection. In some embodiments, operation 1024 may be performed by asubsystem that is the same or similar to data flag subsystem 120.

In operation 1026, a determination may be made as to whether the sectiontext token similarity score satisfies a first threshold condition. Thedetermination may be made for each section's text token similarityscore. In some embodiments, the first threshold condition refers to atext token similarity threshold condition. The first threshold conditionmay be satisfied if a given text token similarity score (e.g., a sectiontext token similarity score) is greater than or equal to a text tokensimilarity threshold score. In some embodiments, operation 1026 may beperformed by a subsystem that is the same or similar to data flagsubsystem 120.

In operation 1028, a second distance in a second feature space betweeneach feature vector from the first and second sets of textual featurevectors may be computed using a fourth NLP model. In some embodiments,the second distance represents how semantically similar the a pair offeature vectors are to one another. For example, a semantic similarityscore may be determined based on an angle θ2, as seen in FIG. 7B. Insome embodiments, angles between feature vectors that are smaller (e.g.,θ<20 degrees, θ<10 degrees, etc.) indicate that the two text tokens aresemantically similar, whereas angles between feature vectors that arelarger (e.g., θ>70 degrees, θ<80 degrees, etc.) indicate that the twotext tokens are not semantically similar. In some embodiments, operation1028 may be performed by a subsystem that is the same or similar tofourth NLP subsystem 118.

In operation 1030, for each section, a semantic similarity score may bedetermined between each text token from the first and second sets oftext tokens based on the corresponding second distance. As mentionedabove, angles between feature vectors that are smaller indicate that twotext tokens are semantically similar, whereas angles between featurevectors that are larger indicate that the two text tokens are notsemantically similar. Therefore, the distance measure between the twofeature vectors may be used to determine the semantic similarity score.As an example, if the angle θ2 of FIG. 7B is zero (e.g., θ2=0), then thesemantic similarity score between feature vectors X₀₀₀ and X₁₀₀ would be1.0 or 100%, indicating the two text tokens are semantically equivalent.In some embodiments, operation 1030 may be performed by a subsystem thatis the same or similar to fourth NLP subsystem 118.

In operation 1032, a section semantic similarity score may be generated,for each section, based on the semantic similarity score for each texttoken in the section of the second document. In some embodiments, thesection semantic similarity score may be computed by combining thesemantic similarity scores of each text token in a particular section(or text tokens from text data extracted from a corresponding document).As an example, each semantic similarity score in a first section ofsecond document 300 may be averaged to obtain a section semanticsimilarity score for the first section. In some embodiments, operation1032 may be performed by a subsystem that is the same or similar tofourth NLP subsystem 118.

In operation 1034, a determination may be made as to whether the sectionsemantic similarity score satisfies a second threshold condition. Thedetermination may be made for each section's semantic similarity score.In some embodiments, the second threshold condition refers to a semanticsimilarity threshold condition. The second threshold condition may besatisfied if a given text token's semantic similarity score is greaterthan or equal to a semantic similarity threshold score. In someembodiments, operation 1034 may be performed by a subsystem that is thesame or similar to data flag subsystem 120.

In operation 1036, a decision is made as to whether the first thresholdcondition was satisfied from each section text token similarity score.If so, process 1000 may proceed to operation 1042. However, if atoperation 1036 it is determined that a section text token similarityscore does not satisfy the first threshold condition, process 1000 mayproceed to operation 1038. In operation 1038, a decision is made as towhether the second threshold condition was satisfied from each sectionsemantic similarity score. If so, process 1000 may proceed to operation1042. However, if at operation 1038 it is determined that a sectionsemantic similarity score does not satisfy the second thresholdcondition, process 1000 may proceed to operation 1040. In someembodiments, operations 1036 and 1036 may be performed by a subsystemthat is the same or similar to data flag subsystem 120.

In operation 1040, a data flag may be generated and stored with eachsection of the second document that fails to satisfy the first thresholdcondition, the second threshold condition, or both. In some embodiments,which sections (or even text tokens) fail to satisfy one or morethreshold conditions may be stored as metadata (e.g., data flag metadata808) in association with a corresponding document. This may allow for avisualization of the document to be rendered where each section ofsecond document 300 that fails to comply with one or more requirementsspecified in that section of first document 200 is presented. In someembodiments, operations 1040 may be performed by a subsystem that is thesame or similar to data flag subsystem 120.

In operation 1042, an indication may be provided for each section thatsatisfies the first threshold condition, the second threshold condition,or both. In some embodiments, which sections (or even text tokens)satisfy one or more threshold conditions may be stored as metadata(e.g., data flag metadata 808) in association with a correspondingdocument. This may allow for a visualization of the document to berendered where each section of second document 300 that does comply withone or more requirements specified in that section of first document 200is presented. In some embodiments, operations 1042 may be performed by asubsystem that is the same or similar to data flag subsystem 120.

FIG. 11 is a diagram that illustrates an exemplary computing system 1100in accordance with embodiments of the present technique. Variousportions of systems and methods described herein, may include or beexecuted on one or more computer systems similar to computing system1100. Further, processes and modules described herein may be executed byone or more processing systems similar to that of computing system 1100.In some embodiments, computer system 102, mobile computing device 104,or other components of system 100 may include some or all of thecomponents and features of computing system 1100.

Computing system 1100 may include one or more processors (e.g.,processors 1110-1-1110-N) coupled to system memory 1120, an input/outputI/O device interface 1130, and a network interface 1140 via aninput/output (I/O) interface 1150. A processor may include a singleprocessor or a plurality of processors (e.g., distributed processors). Aprocessor may be any suitable processor capable of executing orotherwise performing instructions. A processor may include a centralprocessing unit (CPU) that carries out program instructions to performthe arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of computingsystem 1100. A processor may execute code (e.g., processor firmware, aprotocol stack, a database management system, an operating system, or acombination thereof) that creates an execution environment for programinstructions. A processor may include a programmable processor. Aprocessor may include general or special purpose microprocessors. Aprocessor may receive instructions and data from a memory (e.g., systemmemory 1120). Computing system 1100 may be a uni-processor systemincluding one processor (e.g., processor 1110-1), or a multi-processorsystem including any number of suitable processors (e.g.,1110-1-1110-N). Multiple processors may be employed to provide forparallel or sequential execution of one or more portions of thetechniques described herein. Processes, such as logic flows, describedherein may be performed by one or more programmable processors executingone or more computer programs to perform functions by operating on inputdata and generating corresponding output. Processes described herein maybe performed by, and apparatus can also be implemented as, specialpurpose logic circuitry, e.g., an FPGA (field programmable gate array)or an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit). Computing system1100 may include a plurality of computing devices (e.g., distributedcomputer systems) to implement various processing functions.

I/O device interface 1130 may provide an interface for connection of oneor more I/O devices. such as client device 104, to computer system 1100.I/O devices may include devices that receive input (e.g., from a user)or output information (e.g., to a user). I/O devices may include, forexample, graphical user interface presented on displays (e.g., a cathoderay tube (CRT) or liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor), pointingdevices (e.g., a computer mouse or trackball), keyboards, keypads,touchpads, scanning devices, voice recognition devices, gesturerecognition devices, printers, audio speakers, microphones, cameras, orthe like. I/O devices may be connected to computer system 1100 through awired or wireless connection. I/O devices may be connected to computersystem 1100 from a remote location. I/O devices located on remotecomputer system, for example, may be connected to computer system 1100via a network and network interface 1140.

Network interface 1140 may include a network adapter that provides forconnection of computer system 1100 to a network. Network interface may1040 may facilitate data exchange between computer system 1100 and otherdevices connected to the network. Network interface 1140 may supportwired or wireless communication. The network may include an electroniccommunication network, such as the Internet, a local area network (LAN),a wide area network (WAN), a cellular communications network, or thelike.

System memory 1120 may be configured to store program instructions 1122or data 1124. Program instructions 1122 may be executable by a processor(e.g., one or more of processors 1110-1-1110-N) to implement one or moreembodiments of the present techniques. Program instructions 1122 mayinclude modules of computer program instructions for implementing one ormore techniques described herein with regard to various processingmodules. Program instructions may include a computer program (which incertain forms is known as a program, software, software application,script, or code). A computer program may be written in a programminglanguage, including compiled or interpreted languages, or declarative orprocedural languages. A computer program may include a unit suitable foruse in a computing environment, including as a stand-alone program, amodule, a component, or a subroutine. A computer program may or may notcorrespond to a file in a file system. A program may be stored in aportion of a file that holds other programs or data (e.g., one or morescripts stored in a markup language document), in a single filededicated to the program in question, or in multiple coordinated files(e.g., files that store one or more modules, sub programs, or portionsof code). A computer program may be deployed to be executed on one ormore computer processors located locally at one site or distributedacross multiple remote sites and interconnected by a communicationnetwork.

System memory 1120 may include a tangible program carrier having programinstructions stored thereon. A tangible program carrier may include anon-transitory computer readable storage medium. A non-transitorycomputer readable storage medium may include a machine-readable storagedevice, a machine-readable storage substrate, a memory device, or anycombination thereof. Non-transitory computer readable storage medium mayinclude non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM,EEPROM memory), volatile memory (e.g., random access memory (RAM),static random access memory (SRAM), synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM)),bulk storage memory (e.g., CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM, hard-drives), or thelike. System memory 1120 may include a non-transitory computer readablestorage medium that may have program instructions stored thereon thatare executable by a computer processor (e.g., one or more of processors1110-1-1110-N) to cause the subject matter and the functional operationsdescribed herein. A memory (e.g., system memory 1120) may include asingle memory device and/or a plurality of memory devices (e.g.,distributed memory devices). Instructions or other program code toprovide the functionality described herein may be stored on a tangible,non-transitory computer readable media. In some cases, the entire set ofinstructions may be stored concurrently on the media, or in some cases,different parts of the instructions may be stored on the same media atdifferent times.

I/O interface 1150 may be configured to coordinate I/O traffic betweenprocessors 1110-1-1110-N, system memory 1120, network interface 1140,I/O devices (e.g., client device 104), and/or other peripheral devices.I/O interface 1150 may perform protocol, timing, or other datatransformations to convert data signals from one component (e.g., systemmemory 1120) into a format suitable for use by another component (e.g.,processors 1110-1-1110-N). I/O interface 1150 may include support fordevices attached through various types of peripheral buses, such as avariant of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus standard orthe Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard.

Embodiments of the techniques described herein may be implemented usinga single instance of computer system 1100 or multiple computer systems1100 configured to host different portions or instances of embodiments.Multiple computer systems 1100 may provide for parallel or sequentialprocessing/execution of one or more portions of the techniques describedherein.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that computer system 1100 ismerely illustrative and is not intended to limit the scope of thetechniques described herein. Computer system 1100 may include anycombination of devices or software that may perform or otherwise providefor the performance of the techniques described herein. For example,computer system 1100 may include or be a combination of acloud-computing system, a data center, a server rack, a server, avirtual server, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a tabletcomputer, a server device, a client device, a mobile telephone, apersonal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile audio or video player, a gameconsole, a vehicle-mounted computer, or a Global Positioning System(GPS), or the like. Computer system 1100 may also be connected to otherdevices that are not illustrated, or may operate as a stand-alonesystem. In addition, the functionality provided by the illustratedcomponents may in some embodiments be combined in fewer components ordistributed in additional components. Similarly, in some embodiments,the functionality of some of the illustrated components may not beprovided or other additional functionality may be available.

Those skilled in the art will also appreciate that while various itemsare illustrated as being stored in memory or on storage while beingused, these items or portions of them may be transferred between memoryand other storage devices for purposes of memory management and dataintegrity. Alternatively, in other embodiments some or all of thesoftware components may execute in memory on another device andcommunicate with the illustrated computer system via inter-computercommunication. Some or all of the system components or data structuresmay also be stored (e.g., as instructions or structured data) on acomputer-accessible medium or a portable article to be read by anappropriate drive, various examples of which are described above. Insome embodiments, instructions stored on a computer-accessible mediumseparate from computer system 1100 may be transmitted to computer system1100 via transmission media or signals such as electrical,electromagnetic, or digital signals, conveyed via a communication mediumsuch as a network or a wireless link. Various embodiments may furtherinclude receiving, sending, or storing instructions or data implementedin accordance with the foregoing description upon a computer-accessiblemedium. Accordingly, the present techniques may be practiced with othercomputer system configurations.

In block diagrams, illustrated components are depicted as discretefunctional blocks, but embodiments are not limited to systems in whichthe functionality described herein is organized as illustrated. Thefunctionality provided by each of the components may be provided bysoftware or hardware modules that are differently organized than ispresently depicted, for example such software or hardware may beintermingled, conjoined, replicated, broken up, distributed (e.g. withina data center or geographically), or otherwise differently organized.The functionality described herein may be provided by one or moreprocessors of one or more computers executing code stored on a tangible,non-transitory, machine readable medium. In some cases, notwithstandinguse of the singular term “medium,” the instructions may be distributedon different storage devices associated with different computingdevices, for instance, with each computing device having a differentsubset of the instructions, an implementation consistent with usage ofthe singular term “medium” herein. In some cases, third party contentdelivery networks may host some or all of the information conveyed overnetworks, in which case, to the extent information (e.g., content) issaid to be supplied or otherwise provided, the information may beprovided by sending instructions to retrieve that information from acontent delivery network.

The reader should appreciate that the present application describesseveral independently useful techniques. Rather than separating thosetechniques into multiple isolated patent applications, applicants havegrouped these techniques into a single document because their relatedsubject matter lends itself to economies in the application process. Butthe distinct advantages and aspects of such techniques should not beconflated. In some cases, embodiments address all of the deficienciesnoted herein, but it should be understood that the techniques areindependently useful, and some embodiments address only a subset of suchproblems or offer other, unmentioned benefits that will be apparent tothose of skill in the art reviewing the present disclosure. Due to costconstraints, some techniques disclosed herein may not be presentlyclaimed and may be claimed in later filings, such as continuationapplications or by amending the present claims. Similarly, due to spaceconstraints, neither the Abstract nor the Summary of the Inventionsections of the present document should be taken as containing acomprehensive listing of all such techniques or all aspects of suchtechniques.

It should be understood that the description and the drawings are notintended to limit the present techniques to the particular formdisclosed, but to the contrary, the intention is to cover allmodifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spiritand scope of the present techniques as defined by the appended claims.Further modifications and alternative embodiments of various aspects ofthe techniques will be apparent to those skilled in the art in view ofthis description. Accordingly, this description and the drawings are tobe construed as illustrative only and are for the purpose of teachingthose skilled in the art the general manner of carrying out the presenttechniques. It is to be understood that the forms of the presenttechniques shown and described herein are to be taken as examples ofembodiments. Elements and materials may be substituted for thoseillustrated and described herein, parts and processes may be reversed oromitted, and certain features of the present techniques may be utilizedindependently, all as would be apparent to one skilled in the art afterhaving the benefit of this description of the present techniques.Changes may be made in the elements described herein without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the present techniques as described in thefollowing claims. Headings used herein are for organizational purposesonly and are not meant to be used to limit the scope of the description.

As used throughout this application, the word “may” is used in apermissive sense (i.e., meaning having the potential to), rather thanthe mandatory sense (i.e., meaning must). The words “include”,“including”, and “includes” and the like mean including, but not limitedto. As used throughout this application, the singular forms “a,” “an,”and “the” include plural referents unless the content explicitlyindicates otherwise. Thus, for example, reference to “an element” or “aelement” includes a combination of two or more elements, notwithstandinguse of other terms and phrases for one or more elements, such as “one ormore.” The term “or” is, unless indicated otherwise, non-exclusive,i.e., encompassing both “and” and “or.” Terms describing conditionalrelationships, e.g., “in response to X, Y,” “upon X, Y,”, “if X, Y,”“when X, Y,” and the like, encompass causal relationships in which theantecedent is a necessary causal condition, the antecedent is asufficient causal condition, or the antecedent is a contributory causalcondition of the consequent, e.g., “state X occurs upon condition Yobtaining” is generic to “X occurs solely upon Y” and “X occurs upon Yand Z.” Such conditional relationships are not limited to consequencesthat instantly follow the antecedent obtaining, as some consequences maybe delayed, and in conditional statements, antecedents are connected totheir consequents, e.g., the antecedent is relevant to the likelihood ofthe consequent occurring. Statements in which a plurality of attributesor functions are mapped to a plurality of objects (e.g., one or moreprocessors performing steps A, B, C, and D) encompasses both all suchattributes or functions being mapped to all such objects and subsets ofthe attributes or functions being mapped to subsets of the attributes orfunctions (e.g., both all processors each performing steps A-D, and acase in which processor 1 performs step A, processor 2 performs step Band part of step C, and processor 3 performs part of step C and step D),unless otherwise indicated. Similarly, reference to “a computer system”performing step A and “the computer system” performing step B caninclude the same computing device within the computer system performingboth steps or different computing devices within the computer systemperforming steps A and B. Further, unless otherwise indicated,statements that one value or action is “based on” another condition orvalue encompass both instances in which the condition or value is thesole factor and instances in which the condition or value is one factoramong a plurality of factors. Unless otherwise indicated, statementsthat “each” instance of some collection have some property should not beread to exclude cases where some otherwise identical or similar membersof a larger collection do not have the property, i.e., each does notnecessarily mean each and every. Limitations as to sequence of recitedsteps should not be read into the claims unless explicitly specified,e.g., with explicit language like “after performing X, performing Y,” incontrast to statements that might be improperly argued to imply sequencelimitations, like “performing X on items, performing Y on the X'editems,” used for purposes of making claims more readable rather thanspecifying sequence. Statements referring to “at least Z of A, B, andC,” and the like (e.g., “at least Z of A, B, or C”), refer to at least Zof the listed categories (A, B, and C) and do not require at least Zunits in each category. Unless specifically stated otherwise, asapparent from the discussion, it is appreciated that throughout thisspecification discussions utilizing terms such as “processing,”“computing,” “calculating,” “determining” or the like refer to actionsor processes of a specific apparatus, such as a special purpose computeror a similar special purpose electronic processing/computing device.Features described with reference to geometric constructs, like“parallel,” “perpendicular/orthogonal,” “square”, “cylindrical,” and thelike, should be construed as encompassing items that substantiallyembody the properties of the geometric construct, e.g., reference to“parallel” surfaces encompasses substantially parallel surfaces. Thepermitted range of deviation from Platonic ideals of these geometricconstructs is to be determined with reference to ranges in thespecification, and where such ranges are not stated, with reference toindustry norms in the field of use, and where such ranges are notdefined, with reference to industry norms in the field of manufacturingof the designated feature, and where such ranges are not defined,features substantially embodying a geometric construct should beconstrued to include those features within 15% of the definingattributes of that geometric construct. The terms “first”, “second”,“third,” “given” and so on, if used in the claims, are used todistinguish or otherwise identify, and not to show a sequential ornumerical limitation. As is the case in ordinary usage in the field,data structures and formats described with reference to uses salient toa human need not be presented in a human-intelligible format toconstitute the described data structure or format, e.g., text need notbe rendered or even encoded in Unicode or ASCII to constitute text;images, maps, and data-visualizations need not be displayed or decodedto constitute images, maps, and data-visualizations, respectively;speech, music, and other audio need not be emitted through a speaker ordecoded to constitute speech, music, or other audio, respectively.Computer implemented instructions, commands, and the like are notlimited to executable code and can be implemented in the form of datathat causes functionality to be invoked, e.g., in the form of argumentsof a function or API call. To the extent bespoke noun phrases are usedin the claims and lack a self-evident construction, the definition ofsuch phrases may be recited in the claim itself, in which case, the useof such bespoke noun phrases should not be taken as invitation to impartadditional limitations by looking to the specification or extrinsicevidence.

In this patent, to the extent any U.S. patents, U.S. patentapplications, or other materials (e.g., articles) have been incorporatedby reference, the text of such materials is only incorporated byreference to the extent that no conflict exists between such materialand the statements and drawings set forth herein. In the event of suchconflict, the text of the present document governs, and terms in thisdocument should not be given a narrower reading in virtue of the way inwhich those terms are used in other materials incorporated by reference.

The present techniques will be better understood with reference to thefollowing enumerated embodiments:

A1. A method, comprising: obtaining a first document and a seconddocument each comprising a plurality of sections, wherein each sectionof the first document comprises at least one sentence including apredefined keyword, and wherein each section of the second documentcomprises one or more sentences; identifying, using a first naturallanguage processing (NLP) model, each instance of the predefined keywordin each section of the first document; for each section of the pluralityof sections of the first document: extracting, using the first NLPmodel, first text data representing first text tokens of the at leastone sentence including the predefined keyword; generating, using asecond NLP model, based on the first text data, a feature vectorrepresenting each of the first text tokens of the at least one sentenceincluding the predefined keyword to obtain a first set of textualfeature vectors; for each section of the plurality of sections of thesecond document: extracting, using the first NLP model, second text datarepresenting second text tokens of each of the one or more sentences ofa given section of the second document; generating, using the second NLPmodel, a feature vector representing each of the second text tokens ofthe given section of the second document to obtain a second set oftextual feature vectors; determining, based on a term frequency-inversedocument frequency (TF-IDF) analysis of each section of the firstdocument and the second document, a set of text tokens from the firsttext tokens and the second text tokens that occur most frequently in thefirst document and the second document; selecting a set of featurevectors from the first set of textual feature vectors and the second setof textual feature vectors, wherein each feature vector selectedcorresponds to a text token from the set of text tokens; determining atext token similarity score between each text token from the set of texttokens, wherein determining the text token similarity score comprisescomputing, using a third NLP model, a first distance in a first featurespace between each feature vector from the selected set of featurevectors; generating, for each section of the plurality of sections, asection text token score based on the text token similarity score foreach text token of the set of text tokens included in a given section;determining, for each section of the plurality of sections, whether thesection text token score satisfies a first threshold condition, thefirst threshold condition being satisfied for a section text token scorethat is greater than or equal to a threshold text token score; andgenerating and storing a data flag with each section of the plurality ofsections of the second document having a respective threshold text tokenscore failing to satisfy the first threshold condition.A2. The method of embodiment A1, further comprising: determining, foreach section of the plurality of sections, a semantic similarity scorebetween each text token from the first text tokens and the second texttokens, wherein determining the semantic similarity score comprisescomputing, using a fourth NLP model, a second distance in a secondfeature space between each feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors and the second set of textual feature vectors, whereinthe semantic similarity score indicates how semantically similar twotext tokens are to one another; generating, for each section of theplurality of sections, a section semantic score based on the semanticsimilarity score for each text token included in a given section of thesecond document; and determining, for each section of the plurality ofsections, whether the section semantic score satisfies a secondthreshold condition, the second threshold condition being satisfied fora section semantic score that is greater than or equal to a secondthreshold semantic similarity score, wherein the data flag is furthergenerated and stored with each section of the plurality of sectionshaving a corresponding section semantic score that satisfies the secondthreshold condition.A3. The method of embodiment A2, wherein: the first NLP model comprisesa keyword spotting model trained to detect instances of the predefinedkeyword within text; the second NLP model comprises a convolutionalneural network (CNN) trained to perform named entity recognition andgenerate feature vectors; the third NLP model comprises a deep neuralnetwork trained to compute the first distance in the first feature spacebetween two feature vectors to determine the text token similarityscore; and the fourth NLP model comprises a deep neural network trainedto compute the second distance in the second feature space between twofeature vectors to determine the semantic similarity score.A4. The method of any one of embodiments A2-A3, wherein determining thesemantic similarity score for each section of the plurality of sectionscomprises: (i) selecting a feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors and a feature vector from the second set of textualfeature vectors; (ii) computing the second distance in the secondfeature space between the feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors and the feature vector from the second set of textualfeature vectors; (iii) selecting an additional feature vector from thesecond set of textual feature vectors; (iv) computing the seconddistance in the second feature space between the feature vector from thefirst set of textual feature vectors and the additional feature vectorfrom the second set of textual feature vectors; (v) repeating steps(iii) and (iv) for each feature vector of the second set of textualfeature vectors; and (vi) repeating steps (i)-(v) for each additionalfeature vector from the first set of textual feature vectors, whereinsemantic similarity score for a given text token of the first texttokens and a given text token from the second text tokens comprises thesecond distance between a corresponding feature vector from the firstset of textual feature vectors and a corresponding feature vector fromthe second set of textual feature vectors.A5. The method of embodiment A4, wherein: the second distance comprisesat least one of an L2 distance, a Euclidean distance, a cosine distance,a Minkowski distance, a Hamming distance, or a Mahalanobis distance; andthe second feature space comprises a multi-dimensional feature space.A6. The method of any one of embodiments A2-A5, wherein generating thesection semantic score for a given section comprises averaging thesemantic similarity score for each text token included in the givensection to obtain an average semantic similarity score for the givensection, determining whether the section semantic score for the givensection satisfies the second threshold condition comprises: determiningwhether the average semantic similarity score for the given section isgreater than or equal to the second threshold semantic similarity score.A7. The method of any one of embodiments A1-A6, further comprising:tagging, using the second NLP model, each of the first text tokens andeach of the second text tokens with a part-of-speech (POS) tagindicating a part of speech that a given text token represents;detecting, using the second NLP model, one or more named entities withinthe at least one sentence of a given section of the first document andwithin the one or more sentences of the given section of the seconddocument; and assigning, using the second NLP model, a named entityrecognition (NER) tag to each of the one or more named entities detectedwithin the at least one sentence and within the one or more sentences,wherein: each feature vector of the first set of textual feature vectorsis generated based on the NER tag assigned to each of the one or morenamed entities detected within the at least one sentence, and eachfeature vector of the second set of textual feature vectors is generatedbased on the NER tag assigned to each of the one or more named entitiesdetected within the given section.A8. The method of any one of embodiments A1-A7, further comprising:extracting, from the first document, an initial set of weightsindicating a weight attributed to each section of the plurality ofsections; and applying each weight from the initial set of weights tothe section text token score of a corresponding section to obtain aweighted section text token score for each section, wherein determiningwhether the section text token score for each section of the pluralityof sections satisfies the first threshold condition comprises:determining whether the weighted section text token score for eachsection satisfies the first threshold condition.A9. The method of any one of embodiments A1-A8, further comprising:responsive to extracting the first text data, populating a first datastructure with the first text tokens, wherein the first data structurestores each of the first text tokens in association with a sectionidentifier associated with a corresponding section that a text tokenfrom the first text tokens was extracted from; and responsive toextracting the second text data, populating a second data structure withthe second text tokens, wherein the second data structure stores each ofthe second text tokens in association with the section identifierassociated with the corresponding section that a text token from thesecond text tokens was extracted from, wherein the first set of textualfeature vectors are generated based on the first data structure and thesecond set of textual feature vectors are generated based on the seconddata structure.A10. The method of any one of embodiments A1-A9, further comprising:generating a user interface to be rendered by a client device, whereinthe user interface includes the second document having a visualindicator displayed with each section of the plurality of sections thatis determined to have a respective semantic similarity score that failsto satisfy the first threshold condition.A11. The method of any one of embodiments A1-A8, further comprising:performing pre-processing to the first text data and the second textdata, wherein: the pre-processing includes stop word removal and wordstemming, and the first set of textual feature vectors and the secondset of textual feature vectors being obtained based on the pre-processedfirst text data and the pre-processed second text data, respectively.A12. The method of any one of embodiments A1-A11, wherein: each sectionof the plurality of sections of the first document includes a pluralityof sentences, the plurality of sentences including the at least onesentence including the predefined keyword; the first text data comprisesn-grams, alphanumeric character strings, or n-grams and alphanumericcharacter strings of the at least one sentence including the predefinedkeyword; and n-grams, alphanumeric character strings, or n-grams andalphanumeric character strings of each sentence of the plurality ofsentences that does not include the predefined keyword is not extracted.A13. A system, comprising: memory storing computer program instructions;and one or more processors that execute the computer programinstructions to effectuate operations comprising any of embodimentsA1-A12.A14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer programinstructions that, when executed by one or more processors, effectuateoperations comprising any of embodiments A1-A12.

What is claimed is:
 1. A system, comprising: memory storing computerprogram instructions; and one or more processors that execute thecomputer program instructions to effectuate operations comprising:obtaining a first document and a second document each comprising aplurality of sections, wherein each section of the first documentcomprises at least one sentence including a predefined keyword, andwherein each section of the second document comprises one or moresentences; identifying, using a first natural language processing (NLP)model, each instance of the predefined keyword in each section of thefirst document; for each section of the plurality of sections of thefirst document: extracting, using the first NLP model, first text datarepresenting first text tokens of the at least one sentence includingthe predefined keyword; generating, using a second NLP model, based onthe first text data, a feature vector representing each of the firsttext tokens of the at least one sentence including the predefinedkeyword to obtain a first set of textual feature vectors; for eachsection of the plurality of sections of the second document: extracting,using the first NLP model, second text data representing second texttokens of each of the one or more sentences of a given section of thesecond document; generating, using the second NLP model, a featurevector representing each of the second text tokens of the given sectionof the second document to obtain a second set of textual featurevectors; determining, based on a term frequency-inverse documentfrequency (TF-IDF) analysis of each section of the first document andthe second document, a set of text tokens from the first text tokens andthe second text tokens that occur most frequently in the first documentand the second document; selecting a set of feature vectors from thefirst set of textual feature vectors and the second set of textualfeature vectors, wherein each feature vector selected corresponds to atext token from the set of text tokens; determining a text tokensimilarity score between each text token from the set of text tokens,wherein determining the text token similarity score comprises computing,using a third NLP model, a first distance in a first feature spacebetween each feature vector from the selected set of feature vectors;generating, for each section of the plurality of sections, a sectiontext token score based on the text token similarity score for each texttoken of the set of text tokens included in a given section;determining, for each section of the plurality of sections, whether thesection text token score satisfies a first threshold condition, thefirst threshold condition being satisfied for a section text token scorethat is greater than or equal to a threshold text token score; andgenerating and storing a data flag with each section of the plurality ofsections of the second document having a respective threshold text tokenscore failing to satisfy the first threshold condition.
 2. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the operations further comprise: determining, for eachsection of the plurality of sections, a semantic similarity scorebetween each text token from the first text tokens and the second texttokens, wherein determining the semantic similarity score comprisescomputing, using a fourth NLP model, a second distance in a secondfeature space between each feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors and the second set of textual feature vectors, whereinthe semantic similarity score indicates how semantically similar twotext tokens are to one another; generating, for each section of theplurality of sections, a section semantic score based on the semanticsimilarity score for each text token included in a given section of thesecond document; and determining, for each section of the plurality ofsections, whether the section semantic score satisfies a secondthreshold condition, the second threshold condition being satisfied fora section semantic score that is greater than or equal to a secondthreshold semantic similarity score, wherein the data flag is furthergenerated and stored with each section of the plurality of sectionshaving a corresponding section semantic score that satisfies the secondthreshold condition.
 3. The system of claim 2, wherein: the first NLPmodel comprises a keyword spotting model trained to detect instances ofthe predefined keyword within text; the second NLP model comprises aconvolutional neural network (CNN) trained to perform named entityrecognition and generate feature vectors; the third NLP model comprisesa deep neural network trained to compute the first distance in the firstfeature space between two feature vectors to determine the text tokensimilarity score; and the fourth NLP model comprises a deep neuralnetwork trained to compute the second distance in the second featurespace between two feature vectors to determine the semantic similarityscore.
 4. The system of claim 2, wherein determining the semanticsimilarity score for each section of the plurality of sectionscomprises: (i) selecting a feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors and a feature vector from the second set of textualfeature vectors; (ii) computing the second distance in the secondfeature space between the feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors and the feature vector from the second set of textualfeature vectors; (iii) selecting an additional feature vector from thesecond set of textual feature vectors; (iv) computing the seconddistance in the second feature space between the feature vector from thefirst set of textual feature vectors and the additional feature vectorfrom the second set of textual feature vectors; (v) repeating steps(iii) and (iv) for each feature vector of the second set of textualfeature vectors; and (vi) repeating steps (i)-(v) for each additionalfeature vector from the first set of textual feature vectors, whereinsemantic similarity score for a given text token of the first texttokens and a given text token from the second text tokens comprises thesecond distance between a corresponding feature vector from the firstset of textual feature vectors and a corresponding feature vector fromthe second set of textual feature vectors.
 5. The system of claim 4,wherein: the second distance comprises at least one of an L2 distance, aEuclidean distance, a cosine distance, a Minkowski distance, a Hammingdistance, or a Mahalanobis distance; and the second feature spacecomprises a multi-dimensional feature space.
 6. The system of claim 2,wherein generating the section semantic score for a given sectioncomprises averaging the semantic similarity score for each text tokenincluded in the given section to obtain an average semantic similarityscore for the given section, determining whether the section semanticscore for the given section satisfies the second threshold conditioncomprises: determining whether the average semantic similarity score forthe given section is greater than or equal to the second thresholdsemantic similarity score.
 7. The system of claim 1, wherein theoperations further comprise: tagging, using the second NLP model, eachof the first text tokens and each of the second text tokens with apart-of-speech (POS) tag indicating a part of speech that a given texttoken represents; detecting, using the second NLP model, one or morenamed entities within the at least one sentence of a given section ofthe first document and within the one or more sentences of the givensection of the second document; and assigning, using the second NLPmodel, a named entity recognition (NER) tag to each of the one or morenamed entities detected within the at least one sentence and within theone or more sentences, wherein: each feature vector of the first set oftextual feature vectors is generated based on the NER tag assigned toeach of the one or more named entities detected within the at least onesentence, and each feature vector of the second set of textual featurevectors is generated based on the NER tag assigned to each of the one ormore named entities detected within the given section.
 8. The system ofclaim 1, wherein the operations further comprise: extracting, from thefirst document, an initial set of weights indicating a weight attributedto each section of the plurality of sections; and applying each weightfrom the initial set of weights to the section text token score of acorresponding section to obtain a weighted section text token score foreach section, wherein determining whether the section text token scorefor each section of the plurality of sections satisfies the firstthreshold condition comprises: determining whether the weighted sectiontext token score for each section satisfies the first thresholdcondition.
 9. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations furthercomprise: responsive to extracting the first text data, populating afirst data structure with the first text tokens, wherein the first datastructure stores each of the first text tokens in association with asection identifier associated with a corresponding section that a texttoken from the first text tokens was extracted from; and responsive toextracting the second text data, populating a second data structure withthe second text tokens, wherein the second data structure stores each ofthe second text tokens in association with the section identifierassociated with the corresponding section that a text token from thesecond text tokens was extracted from, wherein the first set of textualfeature vectors are generated based on the first data structure and thesecond set of textual feature vectors are generated based on the seconddata structure.
 10. The system of claim 1, wherein the operationsfurther comprise: generating a user interface to be rendered by a clientdevice, wherein the user interface includes the second document having avisual indicator displayed with each section of the plurality ofsections that is determined to have a respective semantic similarityscore that fails to satisfy the first threshold condition.
 11. Thesystem of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise: performingpre-processing to the first text data and the second text data, wherein:the pre-processing includes stop word removal and word stemming, and thefirst set of textual feature vectors and the second set of textualfeature vectors being obtained based on the pre-processed first textdata and the pre-processed second text data, respectively.
 12. Thesystem of claim 1, wherein: each section of the plurality of sections ofthe first document includes a plurality of sentences, the plurality ofsentences including the at least one sentence including the predefinedkeyword; the first text data comprises n-grams, alphanumeric characterstrings, or n-grams and alphanumeric character strings of the at leastone sentence including the predefined keyword; and n-grams, alphanumericcharacter strings, or n-grams and alphanumeric character strings of eachsentence of the plurality of sentences that does not include thepredefined keyword is not extracted.
 13. A non-transitorycomputer-readable medium storing computer program instructions that,when executed by one or more processors, effectuate operationscomprising: obtaining a first document and a second document eachcomprising a plurality of sections, wherein each section of the firstdocument comprises at least one sentence including a predefined keyword,and wherein each section of the second document comprises one or moresentences; identifying, using a first natural language processing (NLP)model, each instance of the predefined keyword in each section of thefirst document; for each section of the plurality of sections of thefirst document: extracting, using the first NLP model, first text datarepresenting first text tokens of the at least one sentence includingthe predefined keyword; generating, using a second NLP model, based onthe first text data, a feature vector representing each of the firsttext tokens of the at least one sentence including the predefinedkeyword to obtain a first set of textual feature vectors; for eachsection of the plurality of sections of the second document: extracting,using the first NLP model, second text data representing second texttokens of each of the one or more sentences of a given section of thesecond document; generating, using the second NLP model, a featurevector representing each of the second text tokens of the given sectionof the second document to obtain a second set of textual featurevectors; determining, based on a term frequency-inverse documentfrequency (TF-IDF) analysis of each section of the first document andthe second document, a set of text tokens from the first text tokens andthe second text tokens that occur most frequently in the first documentand the second document; selecting a set of feature vectors from thefirst set of textual feature vectors and the second set of textualfeature vectors, wherein each feature vector selected corresponds to atext token from the set of text tokens; determining a text tokensimilarity score between each text token from the set of text tokens,wherein determining the text token similarity score comprises computing,using a third NLP model, a first distance in a first feature spacebetween each feature vector from the selected set of feature vectors;generating, for each section of the plurality of sections, a sectiontext token score based on the text token similarity score for each texttoken of the set of text tokens included in a given section;determining, for each section of the plurality of sections, whether thesection text token score satisfies a first threshold condition, thefirst threshold condition being satisfied for a section text token scorethat is greater than or equal to a threshold text token score; andgenerating and storing a data flag with each section of the plurality ofsections of the second document having a respective threshold text tokenscore failing to satisfy the first threshold condition.
 14. Thenon-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein theoperations further comprise: determining, for each section of theplurality of sections, a semantic similarity score between each texttoken from the first text tokens and the second text tokens, whereindetermining the semantic similarity score comprises computing, using afourth NLP model, a second distance in a second feature space betweeneach feature vector from the first set of textual feature vectors andthe second set of textual feature vectors, wherein the semanticsimilarity score indicates how semantically similar two text tokens areto one another; generating, for each section of the plurality ofsections, a section semantic score based on the semantic similarityscore for each text token included in a given section of the seconddocument; and determining, for each section of the plurality ofsections, whether the section semantic score satisfies a secondthreshold condition, the second threshold condition being satisfied fora section semantic score that is greater than or equal to a secondthreshold semantic similarity score, wherein the data flag is furthergenerated and stored with each section of the plurality of sectionshaving a corresponding section semantic score that satisfies the secondthreshold condition.
 15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium ofclaim 14, wherein determining the semantic similarity score for eachsection of the plurality of sections comprises: (i) selecting a featurevector from the first set of textual feature vectors and a featurevector from the second set of textual feature vectors; (ii) computingthe second distance in the second feature space between the featurevector from the first set of textual feature vectors and the featurevector from the second set of textual feature vectors; (iii) selectingan additional feature vector from the second set of textual featurevectors; (iv) computing the second distance in the second feature spacebetween the feature vector from the first set of textual feature vectorsand the additional feature vector from the second set of textual featurevectors; (v) repeating steps (iii) and (iv) for each feature vector ofthe second set of textual feature vectors; and (vi) repeating steps(i)-(v) for each additional feature vector from the first set of textualfeature vectors, wherein semantic similarity score for a given texttoken of the first text tokens and a given text token from the secondtext tokens comprises the second distance between a correspondingfeature vector from the first set of textual feature vectors and acorresponding feature vector from the second set of textual featurevectors.
 16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14,wherein generating the section semantic score for a given sectioncomprises averaging the semantic similarity score for each text tokenincluded in the given section to obtain an average semantic similarityscore for the given section, determining whether the section semanticscore for the given section satisfies the second threshold conditioncomprises: determining whether the average semantic similarity score forthe given section is greater than or equal to the second thresholdsemantic similarity score.
 17. The non-transitory computer-readablemedium of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise: tagging,using the second NLP model, each of the first text tokens and each ofthe second text tokens with a part-of-speech (POS) tag indicating a partof speech that a given text token represents; detecting, using thesecond NLP model, one or more named entities within the at least onesentence of a given section of the first document and within the one ormore sentences of the given section of the second document; andassigning, using the second NLP model, a named entity recognition (NER)tag to each of the one or more named entities detected within the atleast one sentence and within the one or more sentences, wherein: eachfeature vector of the first set of textual feature vectors is generatedbased on the NER tag assigned to each of the one or more named entitiesdetected within the at least one sentence, and each feature vector ofthe second set of textual feature vectors is generated based on the NERtag assigned to each of the one or more named entities detected withinthe given section.
 18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium ofclaim 13, wherein the operations further comprise: responsive toextracting the first text data, populating a first data structure withthe first text tokens, wherein the first data structure stores each ofthe first text tokens in association with a section identifierassociated with a corresponding section that a text token from the firsttext tokens was extracted from; and responsive to extracting the secondtext data, populating a second data structure with the second texttokens, wherein the second data structure stores each of the second texttokens in association with the section identifier associated with thecorresponding section that a text token from the second text tokens wasextracted from, wherein the first set of textual feature vectors aregenerated based on the first data structure and the second set oftextual feature vectors are generated based on the second datastructure.
 19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13,wherein the operations further comprise: generating a user interface tobe rendered by a client device, wherein the user interface includes thesecond document having a visual indicator displayed with each section ofthe plurality of sections that is determined to have a respectivesemantic similarity score that fails to satisfy the first thresholdcondition.
 20. A method implemented by one or more processors configuredto execute computer program instructions, the method comprising:obtaining a first document and a second document each comprising aplurality of sections, wherein each section of the first documentcomprises at least one sentence including a predefined keyword, andwherein each section of the second document comprises one or moresentences; identifying, using a first natural language processing (NLP)model, each instance of the predefined keyword in each section of thefirst document; for each section of the plurality of sections of thefirst document: extracting, using the first NLP model, first text datarepresenting first text tokens of the at least one sentence includingthe predefined keyword; generating, using a second NLP model, based onthe first text data, a feature vector representing each of the firsttext tokens of the at least one sentence including the predefinedkeyword to obtain a first set of textual feature vectors; for eachsection of the plurality of sections of the second document: extracting,using the first NLP model, second text data representing second texttokens of each of the one or more sentences of a given section of thesecond document; generating, using the second NLP model, based on thesecond text data, a feature vector representing each of the second texttokens of the given section of the second document to obtain a secondset of textual feature vectors; determining, based on a termfrequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) analysis of each sectionof the first document and the second document, a set of text tokens fromthe first text tokens and the second text tokens that occur mostfrequently in the first document and the second document; selecting aset of feature vectors from the first set of textual feature vectors andthe second set of textual feature vectors, wherein each feature vectorselected corresponds to a text token from the set of text tokens;determining a text token similarity score between each text token fromthe set of text tokens, wherein determining the text token similarityscore comprises computing, using a third NLP model, a first distance ina first feature space between each feature vector from the selected setof feature vectors; generating, for each section of the plurality ofsections, a section text token score based on the text token similarityscore for each text token of the set of text tokens included in a givensection; determining, for each section of the plurality of sections,whether the section text token score satisfies a first thresholdcondition, the first threshold condition being satisfied for a sectiontext token score that is greater than or equal to a threshold text tokenscore; and generating and storing a data flag with each section of theplurality of sections of the second document having a respectivethreshold text token score failing to satisfy the first thresholdcondition.